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Volunteers beautify the sidewalks of Gowanus, including this garden at 3rd & 3rd. (Photo via Gowanus Canal Conservancy Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/gowanuscanalconservancy/].)It’s our canal, and we love it. Join your neighbors in celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Gowanus Canal Conservancy [http://www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org/
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Katia Kelly’s blog Pardon Me For Asking has been documenting Carroll Gardens and Gowanus for over a decade. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)First, bookmark the blog Pardon Me For Asking [http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/]. There’s something rather meta-journalistic about Katia Kelly’s role as the
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Hundreds of local artists have been evicted from their studios in a cluster of warehouse buildings near the Gowanus Canal, despite their efforts to stay and support from some community members. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER.)After the eviction of hundreds of local artists, three early 20th-century warehouses near the
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Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNERDespite the intense focus of recent years on cleaning up the Gowanus Canal, polluters still try to dump there illegally. As first reported by DNAInfo [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161026/gowanus/cesspool-company-fined-900k-for-dumping-sewage-into-gowanus-canal] , a Queens-based company, A&L Cesspool, pled guilty yesterday at the Brooklyn
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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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Photo by Timothy Caldwell [https://www.flickr.com/photos/shitebot/3316691870/] This is the second in a series of articles by Park Slope Stoop documenting the Bridging Gowanus open houses which are taking place in August and September 2016. Read our previous series article here [/blog/development/getting-gowanus-right-bridging-gowanus-kicks-off-series-of-public-conversations/] . On Friday,
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Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopThe next phase in the Bridging Gowanus [http://bridginggowanus.org/] community planning process kicked off on Tuesday, August 9 at The Bell House [http://www.thebellhouseny.com/], providing the public an opportunity to share input on the future of the Gowanus neighborhood. Residents, volunteers,
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455-459 Smith Street. (Map via Google Earth [https://www.google.com/maps/place/459+Smith+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11231/@40.6756659,-73.9974324,648m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25af79f6980c7:0x924a030f4a9f8aab!8m2!3d40.67562!4d-73.996157!6m1!1e1] )A massive, contaminated, and undeveloped site in the Gowanus neighborhood is on
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Rendering of 2000 Gallon Planted Dumpster. (Courtesy of M18)The 4th of July will feature red, white, and blue as it does every year. The Gowanus neighborhood will be particularly bursting with blue during Independence Day. Blue dumpsters, that is. Gowanus Canal Conservancy [http://gowanuscanalconservancy.org/ee/] (GCC) and Alloy
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Jamie Courville (left) and Chris Reynolds, creators of ‘Gowanus Current’. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)Sifting through the stories of the Gowanus neighborhood often seems murkier than the toxic canal itself. Stitching together the patchwork of environmental, legal, historical, savagely political, communal, artistic, fiscal, real estate-laden topics and
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The Union Street Bridge (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)UPDATE, Monday, June 20 at 5pm: In further discussion between the Park Slope Stoop and the Department of Transportation, a DOT spokesperson now says a drawbridge option for the new Union Street Bridge is still a possibility. Our article
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(Courtesy Flickr/cisc1970)It’s Memorial Day weekend, and that means beach season has arrived right on schedule. The weather is hot, so find a comfy spot and read up to get the low down on what’s going on in the County of Kings. Prospect Park to build two