Everybody’s in love with the Gowanus Canal ... block that dead-ends at the canal. * At the end of Sackett Street, a barbed-wire fence adds drama to the view of the canal. And 287 Bond St ...

There are numerous mysteries about the Gowanus Canal. But the most baffling, not to mention terrifying, is the thick dark sludge that makes it way through the oily waters, that which has been called ...

Clean water advocate and huge swimming fan Christopher Swain became the first person to ever swim the entire length of the unfathomably polluted Gowanus Canal ... with aerial mapping using a ...

The EPA has declared the Gowanus a superfund site, planning a cleanup that may take a decade and cost half a billion dollars. "It goes down maybe 20 feet under the canal, the land alongside it ...

One of the bridges over the Gowanus Canal. Roughly 15 years ago ... that hadn’t existed the last time I checked. The view from Whole Foods was the product of a rezoning effort that began ...

As CBS2's Scott Rapoport reported, local activist Christopher Swain swam in the Gowanus Canal on Earth Day to call attention to what has been heralded as America's dirtiest waterway. PHOTOS ...

A long-awaited dredging of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, a Superfund site, has begun in earnest. It may not be finished for at least a decade. By Mihir Zaveri In the middle of the Gowanus Canal ...