Brad Vogel’s heart sank Friday when he saw a small duckling following its mother through a greasy mat of “black mayonnaise” floating atop the Fourth Street Basin of the Gowanus Canal.

Architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) this week unveiled the design for a 1,000-unit mixed-use tower at 175 Third Street in Gowanus, expected to be the largest building in the neighborhood.

In those early years, Reich remembered the terrible odor from the nearby Gowanus Canal. Tonight’s meeting was all about odors in the neighborhood that have plagued residents for more than a year.

"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 ...

The Gowanus Canal has lived many lives. Most recently, the 1.8 mile canal is known for its pollution: it was named a Superfund site in 2010, thanks to the oily sheen on its surface and ...

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 ...

P.S. 372 The Children's School, a Brooklyn elementary school near the notorious Gowanus Canal that serves special-needs students, is the latest neighborhood property to be flagged for contaminated ...

GOWANUS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- New health concerns that affect residents along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn are being investigated. An environmental database firm, called Toxics Targeting ...

The Gowanus Canal is a mysterious and oft-misunderstood waterway. Its waters are heavily polluted and its bed covered in a thick coating of old industrial sludge called “Black Mayonnaise.” In ...

Aerial view of the Gowanus Canal from Downtown Brooklyn in October of 2021. Photo by Susan De Vries Meanwhile, the Gowanus Oversight Task Force was created to hold agencies to account on the 50 points ...

The Gowanus Canal has a long history of ... and typology that was ubiquitous up and down the canal over the decades.” Alternate view of the proposed second location of the Owl’s Head station ...

A view from across the Gowanus Canal of Powerhouse Arts ... His shop operated as Powerhouse’s first satellite, in temporary space, as the building project developed. By the time the architects ...