I've just learned from Flatbush Gardener that Bob Guskind, the founder of the blog Gowanus Lounge, has passed away.
No other details are available at this time.
Bob was one of those people who could be wry and warm at the same time. His engaging approach to neighborhood oriented blogging was enormously influential to a number of Brooklyn based bloggers. A discussion I had with him after one of the blogfests about creating an actual social network of bloggers that met face to face led to the creation of the Brooklyn Blogade.
He was also a fine photographer and writer.
He will be missed.
Thank you to those of you who posted this on the blog. I am an old friend of Bob's and I will miss him dearly. We went through a lot of coming of age stuff together in the mid to late 70's and I always counted him as my closet friend.
Beyond being a top notch journalist and a man with deep community concerns he was also an incredibly gifted writer. I will do what I can to keep his work alive. To those in the blogging community I invite you to keep the spirit of his blogging efforts alive as well. We have all lost a great friend.
Posted by: Loye Miller | Friday, 06 March 2009 at 09:54 PM