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
Arts & Culture
Neighbors Ute Zimmermann and Joel Beck, founders and owners of Gowanus Souvenir Shop in their original space. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)Not to worry, the love letter to our lavender lake lives on — it’s just moving around the corner. Founders, owners, and Gowanus neighbors Ute Zimmermann
Nonsponsored
Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopThis fine creature was holding court over the Gowanus Canal near the Union Street Bridge. He later took a quick dip in the suspect waters, but retreated soon enough. Not quite like the Gowanus swimmer did [/blog/green/brave-activist-christopher-swain-swims-lavender-lake/]. Take any photos in the
Arts & Culture
Chronos (2014) by Steven Hirsch. (Courtesy of Steven Hirsch)The toxic liquid that fills the Gowanus Canal today is not commonly referred to as alluring, celestial, or even downright trippy. Yet in the world of photographer Steven Hirsch, sludge, chemicals, and waste become vibrant and moving images of color. ‘Gowanus
News
> Car plunges into filthy and frigid Gowanus Canal https://t.co/6NhNy7D1t8 — David Hale (@DavidHa51596823) January 18, 2016 [https://twitter.com/DavidHa51596823/status/689137203352612864] A Brooklyn man who drove his car into the Gowanus Canal after fleeing from a ‘hit-and-run’ incident was held on $15,000 bail. Matthew Murphy
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Gowanus Canal, 1905. (Photo via Brooklyn Public Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/slideshows/gowanus_canal/index60ab.html?topicid=2]) It’s hard to imagine the Gowanus Canal [/blog/green/brave-activist-christopher-swain-swims-lavender-lake] at a time when it was … bucolic. But this was just the beginning of what would make it the “Lavender
Fort Greene Park
Battle of Brooklyn re-enactment at Green-Wood Cemetery via Green-Wood Cemetery [https://www.flickr.com/photos/greenwoodcemetery/5242952209/in/album-72157625429009109/] 239 years ago, our forefathers fought the British in the first major battle of the Revolutionary War, The Battle of Brooklyn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island#Legacy]
Christopher Swain
Activist Christopher Swain swims the Gowanus Canal.Hoards of media and curious individuals waited on bridges along the Gowanus Canal to see a clean-water activist swim its polluted length [/blog/green/so-this-guy-is-going-to-swim-in-the-gowanus-canal] on Wednesday afternoon. Christopher Swain [http://www.swimwithswain.org/], who has taken similar swims through other, somewhat less
gowanus canal
Note the preposition: Fall at the Gowanus, not in. Never in. Take any photos in Park Slope recently? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], or tag them #parkslope on Instagram, and we’ll post them
art exhibits
Photographer Steven Hirsch [http://stevenhirsch.com/] has an awesome set of images [http://gowanuscanalbrooklyn.blogspot.com/] that make the toxic mess of the Gowanus Canal look downright beautiful. While you could wander over to the water’s edge and see it live anytime, you may prefer the relative safety of
Dive In Gowanus
This Friday, August 15, you can eat something delicious and know that you’re helping the Gowanus Canal. The Gowanus Canal Conservancy [http://www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org/] has teamed up with several restaurants for the second annual Dive In Gowanus [http://www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org/ee/index.php/gcc_news/gcc_news?