Topic: Gowanus Canal
Dead Horse Bay Archeologists and hip urban foragers flock to this glass-strewn stretch of marshland for Prohibition-era apothecary and liquor...
GEMSTONE HOLDS PRECIOUS WISDOM. . I'm single, in a long-term relationship. I recently dreamt that my mother (who is deceased) showed me items that...
Two of the big culprits in polluting the Gowanus Canal are properties where cleanup plans for big real estate projects were flubbed, federal...
A Gowanus Canal business owner was slapped with nearly half a million dollars in fines for illegally dumping pollutants into the filthy canal.....
The famously dirty Gowanus Canal is so nasty - full of more than a dozen toxins - that federal officials are cautioning boaters not to fall into...
A few days ago, The Brooklyn Paper published a most intriguing article that enlightened us to the fact that Brooklyn is attempting to get its...
Brooklyn is getting its first Whole Foods - on the banks of the Gowanus Canal - after all.. . Store officials said Monday the on-again, off-again...
The Edwin C. Litchfield of Brooklyn, NY built up the vacant Park Slope area and expanded the Gowanus Canal for shipping. Founder and president of the Brooklyn Improvement Company, Litchfield developed the Red Hook waterfront, the New York and Long Island Coignet ...
A box factory that was built in 1900 along the Gowanus Canal seems an unlikely place to celebrate the Age of Enlightenment. It's also part of a broader artistic renaissance that has transformed the area around the Gowanus Canal from a ...
Last week, the Gowanus Canal, a 1.8-mile, 100-foot wide waterway in northwest Brooklyn which empties into Upper New York Bay, was added to the National Priorities List (NPL) otherwise known Superfund by the Environmental Protection Agency. The history of the Gowanus ...