I finally did it. I took a screenprinting class at Bakline this week, something I’ve wanted to try for years. The guys there are fantastic and hosted a great class. (My first attempt, using their design below). They hold weekly group runs too, for anyone looking to join a running club.
Who else got caught in the deluge this week?! Not pretty.
On to Issue 16.

Now Open / Coming Soon — Lonnies opens on Bond Street, Bar Bruno has new owners and an Oaxacan kitchen, Sake Brooklyn and Blooming Prep are on their way

The Big Story — A 48-year-old Brooklyn arts organization stages its comeback at Powerhouse Arts, eight months after losing its home to fire

Things to Do — A full Memorial Day weekend guide, Todd Barry at Bell House, David Cross at Littlefield, Joe Pera at Bell House, Rooftop Films at American Can Factory

The Local — The oldest bar in Gowanus has been here since before you arrived

Development Watch — Foundation work underway at 141 3rd Street, remediation continues at Public Place

Quick Hits — Puppetworks is losing its home, Seven Wonders Collective opens on Atlantic

The Couple Behind Ingas Bar Opens Lonnies on Bond
Lonnies
112 Bond Street
Now Open
We've been tracking this space since early 2026, back when we knew the team but not the name. The team is Sean Rembold and Caron Callahan, the couple behind Ingas Bar in Brooklyn Heights. The name is Lonnies, after Lonnie Lanham, a Vietnam veteran-turned-hairdresser from Rembold's Kentucky years who embodied complete freedom. The menu follows the same logic, built around whatever's fresh and fun. It is bound to be a hit. It opened Wednesday.

New Owners, New Kitchen at Bar Bruno
@barbrunobk
520 Henry Street
Now Open
Bar Bruno on Henry Street has new owners and an Oaxacan chef. A neighborhood restaurant getting a serious kitchen is a good development.

Sake Brooklyn Is Coming to Society Brooklyn
@sakebrooklyn
500 Degraw Street
Coming Soon · TBA
A sake bar with a social, approachable take on the drink is setting up inside Society Brooklyn at 500 Degraw. No opening date yet. The neighborhood doesn't have anything quite like this. Follow them on Instagram for the announcement.

A School Joins Sola at The Westmark
Blooming Prep Nursery School
395 Carroll Street
Coming Soon · TBA
Blooming Prep Nursery School has signed a 7,470-square-foot lease at The Westmark, joining Sola Salon Studios, which we covered in the last issue. No opening date yet, but the ground floor of 395 Carroll is filling in.

Powerhouse Arts
322 3rd Avenue
May 22 – August 9 · Weekdays 10am–7pm · Weekends 10am–5pm · Closed Memorial Day

The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) has been part of this city for 48 years. For most of that time, they've done the work that makes a creative neighborhood possible, providing affordable studio space, presenting exhibitions, and building the connective tissue between working artists and the communities around them. Last September, a fire tore through the Red Hook waterfront and took their home with it. They've been without a base ever since.

This week, they're back.

Unmoored/Unbound opens at Powerhouse Arts and runs through August 9. It's a juried group show featuring 40 artists working across mediums, exploring themes of loss, transition, liberation, and freedom. The title isn't just a curatorial concept. For BWAC, it describes their current reality. They are an organization without a permanent home, still searching for what comes next, making creative work in the meantime.

Powerhouse Arts stepped in to give BWAC a place to land while they rebuild. The show makes a practical case that arts institutions looking out for each other is how the ecosystem survives and thrives.

The artists span a wide range of mediums and approaches, including Chella Man, whose cinematic underwater imagery has drawn wide attention, Mac Premo, Beth Campbell, and 37 others. These are artists who understand displacement from the inside. The work they made reflects it.

Threes x Royal Palms Memorial Day Weekend Collab
333 Douglass Street
Sat–Sun May 23–24
Two Gowanus institutions doing a weekend collab. On Saturday, Royal Palms brings a shuffleboard pop-up inside Threes, with DJ Workhorse and $5 cocktails. Over at Royal Palms (514 Union Street), Threes runs a tap takeover all weekend, with DJs and beer at $8 a round. Sunday morning, Good Time Pilates sets up an 11am outdoor mat class in the Threes backyard before the afternoon gets going. We love the local collabs! Keep 'em coming please!

Holy Tongue + NOMON at Public Records
233 Butler Street
Sat May 23 · 7pm · Sound Room
Holy Tongue is a London-based experimental duo. It's in the Sound Room, which means the system is doing its share of the work. NOMON opens.

Frank & Tony at Public Records
233 Butler Street
Sun May 24 · 3pm · Atrium + Nursery
Frank & Tony Sunday afternoon in the outdoor Nursery. Tornado Wallace b2b Courtney Bailey and Matías Aguayo also on the bill. The Memorial Day Sunday option if you'd rather be outside.

Gary Gulman: Pizzazz at Union Hall
702 Union Street
Sun May 24 · Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm · $19.26
Gary Gulman (HBO, Comedy Central) doing an extended set of new material with guests. Sunday night, worth the walk up Union Street.

Todd Barry: Special Taping at Bell House
149 7th Street
Sat May 30 · Two shows: 5pm and 9:30pm
Todd Barry is recording a special. Two shows, both at Bell House. If you've seen him, you know. If you haven't, here's your chance.

David Cross: Shootin' the Shit, Seein' What Sticks at Littlefield
635 Sackett Street
Mon June 1 · Tickets at littlefieldnyc.com (also June 17)
Cross rents out Littlefield to work out new material in front of a crowd. No polish, no safety net. Jokes that land might end up in his next special. Worth seeing if you're a fan, specifically because it's unfinished.

Carm Squad Comedy at Bell House
149 7th Street
Fri June 12 · Doors 9:30pm, Show 10pm
Joe Pera, Sarah Sherman, Alex English, and Ivy Wolk. Hosted by Carmen Christopher. A stacked Friday night.

Rooftop Films: Computer Chess at American Can Factory
232 3rd Street
Fri June 12 · 7pm
Andrew Bujalski's 2013 cult film, shot on vintage Sony tube cameras to look like early-80s video. Rooftop Films pairs it with shorts about the technology itself. Specific and worth it.

Canal Bar
270 3rd Avenue
Mon–Fri 3pm–4am · Sat–Sun 1pm–4am
@canalbarbklyn

Canal Bar has been on 3rd Avenue since 2005, which by our count makes it the longest-running bar in the neighborhood. That's not a marketing claim. It's just what happens when you outlast everyone else.

Named for our beloved canal just a stone's throw away, Canal Bar was once a watering hole for an oddball neighborhood of warehouses and rowhouses. The neighborhood around it is changing while it stays the same.

A dark room with a pool table, vintage jukebox with an excellent selection, and a backyard grill when the weather cooperates. Happy hour runs 3–8pm Monday through Friday, and the price is right, re: cheap. Open until 4am if you need it to be. You know a real bar.

What makes Canal Bar worth writing about in 2026 isn't the bar itself, though the bar is very good. It's the vantage point. Two decades on 3rd Avenue means Canal Bar has watched every wave of this neighborhood come through. The artists who colonized the warehouses. The food pioneers who bet on the block before anyone else did. The rezoning conversations. The towers going up everywhere. The new residents who now walk past Canal Bar on the way to dinner at places that opened fifteen years after it did.

Here's the thing about a neighborhood like this one. You need both. A really good $5 croissant and an ice-cold cheap beer from a bottle are not competing visions of Gowanus. They're the same neighborhood. Canal Bar is part of what keeps this place from becoming a stage set of itself. You can't have what’s becoming the new without Sam’s and Staubitz and Canal Bar.

They were here first. That still counts for something. Dogs welcome.

141 3rd Street: Foundation Work Underway
A foundation permit for 141 3rd Street was issued in February and work is now active on site. The contractor is Monadnock, the same firm behind the canal-front tower rising at 155 3rd Street. Permit runs through December 2026.

Remediation Continues at Public Place
NYSDEC's director of environmental remediation, Andrew Guglielmi, sat down with the Red Hook Star-Revue in April for an interview about ongoing investigations at the former Citizens Gas site at Nevins Street and Degraw Street. Multiple tracks are active, including work on Parcel 4 and coordination with National Grid. The full conversation is worth reading at the Star-Revue's site.

Puppetworks is losing its Park Slope home after 35 years.
If you've lived in this neighborhood for more than a few years, there's a good chance you've taken a kid there. The marionette theater at 338 6th Avenue has been a staple of Brooklyn childhoods since 1990. The building sold to a developer; they need to vacate by October 1. Pinocchio runs through August 9. A potential new home in Industry City is being explored, nothing confirmed.

Seven Wonders Collective opens at 398 Atlantic.
A multi-vendor vintage shop sourcing from 36 vendors worldwide just opened at 398 Atlantic Avenue. Classic staples to statement finds, all under one roof.

There’s great art popping up all around us in Gowanus. Powerhouse, Public Records, Arts Gowanus, even on the roof at 3rd and 3rd. Get out there and take it in.

As always, if you hear of something, let us know.
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