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.

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.

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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 ...

A lawsuit filed last month reveals in gory detail the laundry list of putrid chemicals that for more than a century spilled into the Gowanus Canal, earning it the title of Superfund site and ...

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 ...

Not long ago, the residents of Gowanus, in Brooklyn, began to notice that the smell of their canal, known for its unpleasant odor since the Gilded Age, had reached a new level of pungency.

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 ...

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 ...

Teicher writes in an introduction to Gowanus Waters. “Indeed, thanks to its Superfund status, the canal — long referred to by locals as ‘Lavender Lake’ for its distinctive, unnatural hues ...