Closing Bell: Gowanus Gets Hot
The Wall Street Journal, which seems to take a particular interest in profiling Brooklyn neighborhoods, turned its eyes towards Gowanus today. “Once a shadowy dead zone stacked with rusting warehouses along deserted streets, the blocks that surround the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn… have become the city’s unlikeliest cultural hot spot,” says the article. Bars and…
The Wall Street Journal, which seems to take a particular interest in profiling Brooklyn neighborhoods, turned its eyes towards Gowanus today. “Once a shadowy dead zone stacked with rusting warehouses along deserted streets, the blocks that surround the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn… have become the city’s unlikeliest cultural hot spot,” says the article. Bars and event spaces are opening mere blocks from the canal, even attracting visitors from Manhattan. (Not mentioned in the article: the purple-themed nightclub on 3rd Ave., pictured.) Because while the Superfunded Gowanus Canal has stalled development, it’s opened up a window for artists and arts entrepreneurs to move in cheap. But who knows what happens after the Whole Foods comes…
Superfund Site Morphs into Cultural Hot Spot [WSJ]
how can you hate pie?
I moved to Gowanus in ’99- I miss the hookers and stray dogs. I hate pie and hipsters.
Cheap?? Wtf.
Gowanus is the perfect place for nightlife. Wish there were more clubs around there.
“All the writers live in Brooklyn. Hence, all the articles. Once it gets too expensive for the writers, that will be the end of the coverage.”
So true.
All the writers live in Brooklyn. Hence, all the articles. Once it gets too expensive for the writers, that will be the end of the coverage.
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city’s unlikeliest cultural hot spot
cultural? lol. you mean the city’s next area that has the same old crap that other gentrified neighborhoods have.
*rob*
zzzzzz
cheap no longer. thanks WSJ.