Gowanus Lounge is back in the saddle. His coverage of real estate and development in Brooklyn was sorely missed. Here he offers an explanation for his absence. It seems that he was set to to partner up with someone but things didn’t work out.
Gosh. He made it sound like someone died. Or it was the break up of a romance.
Glad to hear it was just the demise of a business relationship; but that can be pretty devastating, too. Sounds like GL was trying to grow the blog and also alleviate some of his own work load. Now he’s looking for stringers, interns, and tipsters to help him out.
And now, a few words of explanation. I have always preferred to keep GL as a place for news, observation, images and analysis, but I’d like to offer some insight about what happened. Life events left me no choice but to suspend GL for a time. I had hoped to partner with someone and create a very formidable news team in Brooklyn and beyond. This person was part of the GL team for a long time and is still deeply missed. The real point, however, is that blogging is a huge commitment of time and energy and requires a lot of focus. GL takes up an additional 6-8 hours a day beyond our “day job” at Curbed. It has always been a labor of love. So, it was time to endure some turmoil and reassess. All that having been said, I can no longer sit back and walk past neighborhood news and ignore it. So, I resuming posting with hope that GL will continue to grow.
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We still have no idea if you ask me; and yes, I agree, it did sound like somebody died – and it still sounds like it was a bad breakup.
whatever the case may be, I admire what Rob is trying to do, building what seems to be a more ‘brooklyn-centric’ Curbed; which would be a welcome addition considering Curbed and Brownstoner have just degenerated into class warfare and unbridled neuroses. But it might behoove Rob for the time being to keep it simple, and not try to take over the world.