Xris Kreussling, the blogger who runs Flatbush Gardener, left the following note in the comment section of the Brooklyn Paper's article, The Death of a Blogger, about Robert Guskind's death. Kreussling, like quite a few other bloggers was outraged by the tone of the article by Mike McLaughlin. 

Thanks to Chris at Flatbush Gardener for compiling this list:

New York Sh*tty
Video by Miss Heather and Robert Guskind, 2009-03-01

In alphabetical order
66 Square Feet
Art in Brooklyn
Bad Advice
Best View in Brooklyn
BRIC Community Media
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Heights Blog
Brooklyn Ron
Brooklynometry
Brownstoner
Bumpershine
Clinton Hill Blog
Cobble Hill Blog
Crazy Stable
Curbed (Bob worked at Curbed until this past January)
Dope on the Slope
Dumbo NYC
Fort Greene-Clinton Hill, The Local, New York Times
Gothamist
Living the American Green
New York Magazine
Not Another F*cking Blog
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
Pardon Me For Asking
Plasticblog
Pretty in the City
Reclaimed Home
Self-Absorbed Boomer
Vanishing New York
Washington Square Park
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/the-death-of-a-blogger_b_172406.htm

I just found Bob's introductory post on Gowanus Lounge, when it was on Blogspot.com, the free blog platform originally used by Bob. In his own words, he talks about his career in journalism and his plans for his blog. It is dated April 27, 2006.

Welcome to the Gownanus Lounge (Beta).
Gowanus Lounge is the culmination of months of rumination, if not
planning. It will seek to cover, through words and pictures, whatever
moves me, with a particular focus on New York City as it is today and
is becoming. The focus will be Brooklyn–and particularly Gowanus, Red
Hook, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Williamsburg and
Dumbo–with frequent excursions into Queens, especially Long Island
City. Manhattan, too.

Up front: While I am a realist about what
cities need in order to survive and thrive, I am not a fan of what is
happening in our communities, and particularly of the looming
Manhattanization of Brooklyn and of the ongoing Theme Parkization of
Manhattan. The blog side of Gowanus Lounge will be joined, some months
down the road, by a literary magazine intended to feature the work,
especially, of Brooklyn-based writers, and stories that feature a
strong sense of place.

At least, that is the plan.

For
now, Gowanus Lounge is in its beta version. I put it up with the
intention of getting feedback from my girlfriend and friends, but it is
together enough for those who click a link or stumble upon it.
Hopefully, you'll be curious enough to come back.

Although
I've got plenty of mainstream journalism experience under my belt, I've
edged into blogging, learning from my some of my favorite blogs and
sites: Curbed, Gothamist, City Rag, Daily Slope and others. Ironically, my photography and my postings on flickr, which were turning into an ersatz photoblog, nudged me into finally taking the plunge.

For
many years, I worked at National Journal in Washington, writing serious
policy and political stories before life took me in a different
direction. I learned at the side of Neal R. Peirce, the founder of the Citistates Group
and one of the great urban writers of our time. Neal is the smartest
and most thoughtful person writing about planning and development
issues that I know.

These days, I run a small community newspaper, and write short fiction which appears monthly at Cherrybleeds and creative non-fiction drawn from a previous chapter of my life, also monthly at Underground Voices.
I also take a lot of pictures. If I were to spend time with a writing
psychiatrist, he or she would likely tell me that I have several
personalities and that they are not well integrated.

I don't take myself as seriously as all this might make it sound.

I’ll never forget the day that a perfect stranger by the name of Bob Guskind called to say that he was starting a blog. He told me that he was a seasoned journalist and a reader of OTBKB—and that he planned on focusing on real estate and development issues in Brooklyn.

He was calling his blog, Gowanus Lounge, named after a shuttered bar on Union Street and Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

I met Bob a few weeks later at the First Annual Brooklyn Blogfest at the Old Stone House. That was June of 2006 and I was very impressed with him. Serious, funny, he had a hearty laugh and a radio announcer’s voice. He told me that he’d worked at the National Journal in Washington for years. It was obvious that he was really excited about this blogging thing.

Clearly, he was smitten by the promise of the Blogosphere because it offered him the chance to pursue a lifelong dream: to be the publisher, editor, and star reporter of his very own Internet newspaper.

In the months that followed I was amazed at the scope of Bob’s reporting. At the time he had a day job at  community newspaper in New Jersey and a freelance job with Curbed, a real estate blog in Manhattan. But somehow he managed to put out numerous blog posts every day. How, I wondered, did he have the time for all the top-notch reporting he was doing in and around Brooklyn?

And, boy, did he get around: Gowanus, Park Slope, Williamsburg, Coney Island. Bob was an old style newspaper reporter. He walked the walk, made the phone calls, drove the car doing the real face-to-face reporting that few bloggers are willing or able to do.

Later he worked full-time for Curbed.com and he still managed to create a wonderfully dynamic blog that had its own distinct editorial voice and hard-hitting reporting.

I especially enjoyed Bob’s frequent Street Couch series, photographs taken by Bob of derelict couches that were abandoned on the streets of Brooklyn. Those posts exhibited a whimsical and creative side of Bob that I found compelling.

Last summer we were both interviewed on Brian Lehrer’s television show. It was a nice experience and Bob and I spoke afterward about the myriad ways that blogging had changed our lives. That’s when he told me that Gowanus Lounge was the best thing he’d ever done professionally because it was a dream come true to invent his own “newspaper.”

Many of us knew that Bob worked too hard. That, like many journalists, he had “workaholic” tendencies. He worked until he dropped. He would often regale me with tales of work days that began well before dawn and took him till the wee hours of the morning. It seemed that long hours were the rule not the exception for Bob, who obviously loved what he was doing.

In the summer of 2007 Bob married his longtime girlfriend. I was very happy for him when he told me that they were honeymooning in Hawaii.

In the fall of 2008, he alarmed the Brooklyn Blogosphere by taking a sudden hiatus without any warning. He left a cryptic note on his blog that few understood. Readers and fellow bloggers were concerned. He did, however, return a few weeks later seemingly rejeuvantated and ready to blog on. He added a roster of contributors as well, which seemed like a good sign.

And now this. Yesterday Susan Fox of Park Slope Parents emailed to ask me if I knew why Bob’s blog was inaccessible. Last night Hugh checked out the address of Bob’s main server and discovered that it wasn’t online. He concluded it was not a matter of a malfunction but that the server had been turned off (the IP address was not on the net).

And then this morning, I got word, later confirmed by the Medical Examiner’s Office, that Bob died on March 4th. That’s all they would tell us. No cause of death was mentioned.

It is too soon and sudden to write about the significance of Gowanus Lounge and the lasting influence he has already had on other bloggers, blog readers, activists, and those who are passionate about historical preservation, contextual architecture and affordable housing. Bob’s contribution to reporting on the Atlantic Yards, the building boom in Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Greenpoint, Fourth Avenue and the destruction of Coney Island is vast.

Much will be written about the pioneering influence of Bob Guskind and Gowanus Lounge.

So let me simply say: This is a sad day for all who love Brooklyn and cherish its neighborhoods and the spunky, historic charm and faded beauty of places, like Coney Island, that loom large in the American imagination.

As a journalist, Bob was looking out for this borough and trying to protect it from the forces of money and development that have swept through these parts in the last few years like a reckless tornado.

Bob, you had Brooklyn’s back. And for that we will always remember you. Thank you for you hard work and your belief that change is possible in the form of good reporting, a well-crafted blog post, and photographs that speak volumes.

Rumors have been swirling around for the last 24 hours about the whereabouts of Bob Guskind, the journalist who runs Gowanus Lounge.

I found out yesterday that his immensely popular blog, which focuses on real estate and development issues in Park Slope, Gowanus, Williamsburg and Coney Island, was non-operational.

Readers and fellow bloggers were concerned that their phone calls, emails and texts were not being returned.

This morning, Susan Fox of Park Slope Parents received an anonymous text that Bob was dead.

His death is now confirmed. A communications official at the Medical Examiners Office told me  that he died on March 4th, 2009.

This is very sad news for the Brooklyn Blog community. My condolences to his wife and loved ones.

This picture was taken by Hugh Crawford at last year's Brooklyn Blogfest. I know the year of his birth because we talked about the fact that we were both
born in 1958.

New York Shitty posted an incredible video that she and Bob made one day in Greenpoint; an interview with a fascinating woman with great stories to tell.