More Gowanus Goop
There’s a lot of discussion these days about the best way to clean up the Gowanus Canal, but before that happens we should at least find a way to stop its ongoing pollution. These two photos were sent in by a reader who took them from the 9th Street bridge. The gate on the east…
There’s a lot of discussion these days about the best way to clean up the Gowanus Canal, but before that happens we should at least find a way to stop its ongoing pollution. These two photos were sent in by a reader who took them from the 9th Street bridge. The gate on the east side of the street was open, so he walked along the canal and discovered that the spillage was coming from a woodworking business. WTF?
Ugh, why don’t we just fill the canal in once and for all. It has been an eyesore for decades and nothing is going to help it. It is just disgusting and is a toxic wasteland.
Sorry not a river but a canal built out of the local tidal wetlands and fresh water streams
The Gowanas was not built. It was a naturally occurring river that ran through this part of Brooklyn during Walt Whitman’s time. Our industrialization of the planet is what destroyed this river. We only think of it as a toxic waste dump because that is what we did to it. It is our responsibility to restore it to the river it once was.
and Toll Brothers will be building a mixed income condo community by 1st and 2nd Street? This is crazy!
Do you need any more proof that the Gowanus should be designated a Superfund Site?
northsloperenter- you were very funny. “Historic foulness” was brilliant! sma- how much for membership in Friends of Historic Ooze? (I already did a logo for you) 🙂
But seriously- someone in their right mind opposes a clean up?? I think the debate is how to do the clean up, not whether or not to do it.
I was ready to jump on the “friends of Historic Ooze” bandwagon.
kuroko — I was being sarcastic and mocking (1) people who oppose any development because what was built in 1895 is superior to anything we could possibly build today and (2) the people who are opposed to the government cleaning up the Gowanus Canal because, apparently, the like the canal just the way it is.
Nice job taking the photos. The Gowanus is one of the sadder spots of the city.
yea but they were swans yesterday