A group of researchers from NYU Polytechnic has sent a roving, camera-equipped robot into the Gowanus Canal to capture images and collect water quality data from the sewage-laced Superfund site. Now ...
With Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Bushwick, North Brooklyn may be the borough’s largest artistic enclave. But artists live and work in South Brooklyn, too, and Gowanus — with its Superfund canal and ...
"It can cause health effects at low concentrations," EPA Human Health Risk Assessor Dr. Lora Smith-Staines said Tuesday of the canal's contaminants. Helayne Seidman It’s Eau de Gowanus delivered to ...
The story: This small block, right at the edge of the Gowanus Canal, is a rare surviving example of what Brooklyn housing once looked like. The Gowanus Canal was more or less finished by 1869, and the ...