Gowanus
GOWANUS – Dozens of Gowanus neighbors held a candlelight vigil on the corner of Butler and Nevins Streets Tuesday evening to show their opposition to the city’s proposed demolition of the historic Gowanus Station building. Gowanus Station, 234 Butler Street (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Located at 234 Butler Street, the
environment
GOWANUS – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206222] announced last week that the Gowanus Canal cleanup has been stalled due to issues with the dredging and capping pilot project [/work-begins-gowanus-canal-cleanup/] that was scheduled to begin at the end of 2017. 4th Street
Coney Island
GOWANUS/GREENPOINT/CONEY ISLAND – Some homeowners and business owners in NYC may be unwittingly contributing to polluting the city’s waterways, according to a recent City Limits [https://citylimits.org/2018/01/16/in-unknown-numbers-and-often-unwittingly-homes-and-businesses-pollute-city-waterways/] report. The Gowanus Canal from the Union Street Bridge. (Photo: BKLYNER)While the Beach Haven Apartments
environment
Gowanus Station building, 234 Butler Street via Google MapsBROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL – A public hearing was held at Brooklyn Borough Hall Monday evening to discuss the fate of the historic Gowanus Station building [https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/building-of-the-day-226-nevins-street/] which could potentially be demolished to make room for an 8-million-gallon Combined
community
GOWANUS – With cleanup efforts officially kicking off at the Gowanus Canal’s Fourth Street Basin [/work-begins-gowanus-canal-cleanup/] last month, elected officials and EPA representatives hosted a town hall meeting at the Wyckoff Gardens Community Center Thursday evening to update locals on the Superfund project. Congress Member Nydia Velazquez at the Gowanus
Announcements
GOWANUS – The Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group (CAG) [https://gowanuscag.org/] is hosting a town hall this Thursday, November 16, to let the public know what the canal cleanup will entail, the timeline, and what to expect. Designated a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2010, the
community
Photo/ Zainab IqbalDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – “Please excuse me, I just came from the hospital. My daughter, 11-years-old, had a nervous breakdown because I was talking to somebody about Hurricane Sandy. My daughter was only six years old. I almost lost my daughter,” said Rachel Rivera, a Brooklynite. Thousands of people gathered
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The 4th Street Turning Basin Debris Removal Pilot Project began on October 24. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.
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Littered corner of Sheepshead Bay Pier near the Holocaust Memorial Park. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Mokrousova.Last week, a Sheepshead Bites reader, Elizabeth Mokrousova, reached out to us with her concern about the garbage-filled waters with shocking photographs taken at the edge of the pier. The photos show empty Ajax
Nonsponsored
Via US Environmental Protection Agency.The public has one more week to comment on a controversial proposal to build an underground sewage tank near the Gowanus Canal. “The deal, when finalized, will end years of sparring between the city and EPA over the location of two underground sewage tanks that
Arts & Culture
Author and journalist Joseph Alexiou. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop) “It’s a little pungent today.” On a recent Sunday, author, journalist, and historian Joseph Alexiou was leading a group on a walking tour focused on the history of the Gowanus Canal and the surrounding neighborhood. He paused
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZbq4YY_gb8&feature=youtu.be Assemblyman William Colton is outraged over raw footage which appears to show a moving construction container dropping black sludge and debris into Gravesend Bay. Dredging at the site of the controversial Southwest Brooklyn Marine Waste Transfer Station [/?s=
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Photo submitted to Bensonhurst Bean by anonymous tipster.Councilman Vincent Gentile is joining the chorus of voices calling [/coltons-anti-waste-task-force-demands-epa-investigate-garbage-station-work-site/#.VfB4eGTBzGc] for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate the construction site of the city’s planned Gravesend Bay Waste Transfer Station. Last week, Gentile penned a letter to New York
cleanup
From the banks of the Gowanus Canal Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency [http://www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/gowanus/] announced its $506 million plan to clean up the Superfund site, one of the most polluted waterways in our country. “What this cleanup plan will do is require the removal
7601 19th ave
Councilman Vincent Gentile. (Source: nyccouncil.tumblr.com)Councilman Vincent Gentile secured a deal that would make classrooms in P.S. 186 (7601 19th Avenue) safer by removing PCBs from light fixtures before the start of the next school year, according to a press release. PCBs are a carcinogenic chemical used
chlordane
The incineration plant and landfill dump at Gravesend Bay in 1973, now the site at the center of a major Bensonhurst environmental debate. (Source: Source: Arthur Tress via DailyDOCUMERICA)Opponents of the proposed Gravesend Bay waste station had their cause buoyed by the discovery of potent toxins in the waters