Go to Gowanus Lounge and read the beautifully written—and detailed—In Memoriam written by Marc Farre, with the assistance of Norman Oder, Heather Letzkus and Neal Peirce, and the approval of Bob’s family. Here's a brief excerpt…Go to Gowanus Lounge for more.

Dubbed by some “Brooklyn’s Blogfather,” Bob was a
talented journalist, author, photographer and editor whose deep interest in urban issues took root, right out of college, at the National Journal. Bob’s abundant journalistic gifts flourished throughout the 1980s and 90s at Journal, the Washington Post
and other periodicals, and were reincarnated, in this decade, through
the “revolutionary” (his word) form of blogging — where his own
“personal newspaper,” which he started almost exactly three years ago,
quickly stood out for the quality and seeming ubiquitousness of its
coverage.

Bob was found dead in his apartment in Park
Slope by his wife, Olivia Kissin, on Wednesday, March 4. (An autopsy
report is awaited; he had previously survived several severe health
problems, and well over a decade ago had struggled with addiction.) He
was 50. Bob had experienced a rough several months, and was struggling
on several fronts in both his personal and professional life. In
addition to working through some painful emotional challenges, he had
recently been laid off, for economic reasons, from his full-time job as
Brooklyn editor at Curbed, as well as from a side job he had considered
secure.