Announcements
Gowanus Canal. Photo by Udi via Flickr. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/udi/8145783849/]GOWANUS — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the issuance of an administrative order requiring the start of the cleanup of the Gowanus Canal Superfund site. Designated a Superfund site by the EPA in
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GOWANUS – In an effort to bring attention to the area’s Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) problem, activists marched at Thomas Greene Playground on Saturday with reminders of the notorious Gowanus Canal “Poonami.” Members of the Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition for Justice marched during Thomas Greene Park’s Halloween Parade (Pamela Wong/
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GOWANUS – The Gowanus Canal is an anomaly. The new buildings and hip restaurants rising alongside it strike a stark contrast with its thick industrial waters. Providing safe passage across everybody’s favorite Superfund site are five bridges, each with its own story. When one of the five bridges open, residents
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GOWANUS – The Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group [https://gowanuscag.org]’s (CAG) monthly meeting took place as scheduled Tuesday (January 22) despite the ongoing federal government shutdown prohibiting furloughed EPA [https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206222] team members from attending. Via Gowanus Canal CSO Facilities Tunnel
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GOWANUS – The NYC Department of Environmental Protection [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/home/home.shtml] (DEP) has proposed the use of a tunnel to collect excess combined sewage from the Gowanus Canal instead of two CSO (combine sewage overflow) tanks currently planned in the EPA’s cleanup of
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[UPDATED: Thursday, October 11, 2018, 10:00am] A spokesperson for DOT responded, “This project is in its initial phases. We are currently studying the possibility of having a fixed bridge approved at this location by the Coast Guard. The first step in that process is a Navigation Study, which polls
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GOWANUS – The Brooklyn Supreme Court gave the NYC Department of Environmental Protection [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/home/home.shtml] (DEP) the green light last week to proceed with the acquisition of three properties in Gowanus to build an eight million gallon Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO) tank and
Arts & Culture
GOWANUS – For a second year in a row, the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club [http://www.gowanuscanal.org] and the Gowanus Souvenir Shop [https://gowanussouvenir.com] hosted a poetry reading [https://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/bookend/watery-words-reading-niedecker-on-the-gowanus-at-dawn/] Wednesday morning on the Gowanus Canal as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival [/brooklyn-book-festival-sept-10-17/]. Gowanus
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GOWANUS – During Monday morning’s intermittent rain, EPA Regional Administrator Peter Lopez, Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, and Dan Wiley from Congress Member Nydia Velázquez’s office marked the final phase of the dredging and capping pilot project [https://semspub.epa.gov/work/02/503424.pdf] at the Gowanus Canal’
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GOWANUS – Forget Belmont Stakes! Sixteen teams braved the waters of the Gowanus Canal on Saturday for a canoe race on the notoriously contaminated Superfund site. New CB6 District Manager Mike Racioppo shoots the starting pistol (Photo: Nathan Haselby)Gowanus Challenge SuperFun Canoe Race (Photo: Nathan Haselby)Gowanus Challenge SuperFun Canoe
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BROWNSVILLE – Off-duty NYPD officer Ernesto Marks, 37, was arrested last night around 1:45 am, police confirmed. He was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing. GREENPOINT – Later that night, another off-duty cop was arrested, this time in North Brooklyn. Emel Lyndl Alegre, 34, was arrested around 2:00 am, and
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[UPDATED: Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 11:15am] This post has been updated to include additional photographs provided by Jonathan Bream, an archeologist with AHRS [http://ahrservices.com/]. GOWANUS – On Monday afternoon, the EPA [https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206222] presented some of the debris construction
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GOWANUS – The removal of the “black mayonnaise” from the bottom of the Gowanus Canal’s 4th Street Turning Basin resumed last week after issues with reinforcing bulkheads forced the project to a halt in January [/gowanus-pilot-dredging-project-stalled-bulkhead-installation-causes-damages/]. Dredging equipment at Gowanus Canal 4th Street Turning Basin (Photo: Nathan Haselby)The cleanup
Announcements
2935 W 5 St Scaffolding collapsed (Photo: Credit NYC 911 News LLC)BROOKLYN – There were four flash flood warnings this morning, and we hope you were not personally affected by the havoc the heavy rains unleashed on the city. Scaffolding collapsed on two parked cars in Brighton Beach (2935 W
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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
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Gowanus Canal seen from the 9th Street Bridge (Photo: Nathan Haselby)GOWANUS – A phone call early Tuesday morning alerted police to a dead body floating in the Gowanus Canal, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed. Responding to the 911 call at 7:00 am on Tuesday, April 3, police discovered an unconscious