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
Development
The corner of Clay and Commercial Streets, where a nine-story building will go up on a lot marred by toxic chemicals (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – Developers have filed for a new nine-story residential building in North Greenpoint, above a toxic plume of phthalates that has leaked from the Nuhart Site
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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/
News
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
Education
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,
News
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
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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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
gowanus dredgers canoe club
Have you ever walked across the Union Street Bridge, looked down at the Gowanus Canal and thought, I want to get closer to this polluted body of water? No? You are probably in the majority. But you can get closer. In fact, you can actually take a canoe trip down
superfund site
At a forum for candidates seeking the vacant 11th Congressional District seat in the May 5 special election [/important-deadlines-dates-for-the-11th-cd-special-election/] last week, Councilman Vincent Gentile vowed that, if elected, he would halt construction on the controversial Gravesend Bay Waste Transfer Station and consider turning area into a Superfund site. “When I
Environmental Protection Agency
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