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	Gowanus, Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gowanus is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA, situated roughly between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens on the west and Park Slope on the East.
		The neighborhood is dwarfed by the Smith-Ninth Street subway station and the Gowanus Expressway, both crossing the Gowanus Canal.
		The neighborhood of Gowanus is not widely known, perhaps because many of the relatively few residents of Gowanus identify themselves as living in other areas that border it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gowanus (489 words)

	Gowanus Expressway (I-278)
		The viaduct was to connect the Gowanus Parkway with newer arteries such as the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Prospect Expressway.
		Further south, the newly christened "Gowanus Expressway" was extended from the western terminus of the Belt Parkway to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, despite vociferous protests by Bay Ridge residents.
		Replacing the Gowanus Expressway with a tunnel would be cheaper in the long run than rebuilding the crumbling elevated highway and would revive moribund neighborhoods in southwest Brooklyn, according to a study by a regional planning group.
	www.nycroads.com /roads/gowanus (3777 words)

	The Big Apple: Lavender Lake (Gowanus Canal)
		High tide and low is as good a metaphor as any for the fortunes of the Gowanus, which have risen, fallen and risen again since the Dutch settled this former creek in the 1600s, naming it for chief Gowanee of the Canarsee tribe.
		South Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, opened in 1866, was once hailed as one of the shortest and most important waterways in the world.
		Gowanus, though, can hold a candle to it, and on the strength of its industrial attributes has acquired the nickname of "Lavender Lake." Newtown is just Newtown.
	www.barrypopik.com /index.php/new_york_city/entry/lavender_lake_gowanus_canal (792 words)

	Gowanus Project: Component One
		The Gowanus Canal was one of the largest industrial centers in the country during the early 1900s.
		The Gowanus Canal ecosystem is severely polluted with inorganic waste such as toxic metals, as well as organic waste such as sewage and oil.
		The Gowanus team proposes that these trees be placed along the sides of the canal to prevent and treat harmful toxins in runoff.
	www.mediaworkshop.org /hses/gowanus/c1 (905 words)

	Gowanus Village - Wired New York Forum
		She wants the hundreds of factories in Gowanus and nearby Red Hook to be able to provide jobs for a new generation of immigrants, and for the housing that is there to remain within the workers' reach.
		Frogg and its allies are defying powerful trends that view Gowanus as a reinvigorated residential bridge from Park Slope on the east to Carroll Gardens on the west and Boerum Hill on the northwest.
		Gowanus is also less than a half-mile away from the Atlantic railyards, where the developer Bruce C. Ratner has proposed building a basketball arena for the Nets and 16 buildings with 7,300 apartments.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=5416 (3408 words)

	In the late nineteen century the Gowanus canal was a significant waterway for New York City's commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the late nineteen century the Gowanus canal was a significant waterway for New York City's commerce.
		The use of the canal by heavy chemical industries and the presence of both a metal and paint plant were detrimental factors that caused oil and grease floatables, pathogenic agents, toxicity to aquatic life and color, odor and turbidity problems.
		One thing is certain, Gowanus pollution occurred as a result of a series of complicated activities in it.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /environ/projects/Gowanus.htm (1068 words)

	Gowanus Canal. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Gowanus Canal, industrial canal, SE borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. city, SE N.Y.; 40°40'N 74°00'W. Heavily polluted, it runs S from Hamilton Ave.
		In the 17th cent., the Dutch found it to be a pristine tidal inlet bordered by rich saltmarsh from which foot-long oysters were supposedly taken; in 1774 the Colonial Assembly enacted a law to widen the creek, draining and filling adjacent marshes.
		Construction of the Gowanus Expressway through Brooklyn and subsequent increased use of trucks diminished the canal’s importance, though some ships still use it today.
	www.bartleby.com /69/16/G03816.html (254 words)

	A Voyage Down The Gowanus
		I didn't catch the final verdict, but he was either a blue crab (a boon to mankind and completely edible, provided you eat the claw meat and avoid the much-sought-after 'yellow butter'in the belly, where all the poisons go) or the dreaded green crab, an inscrutable, invasive species from the Orient.
		Though the plans for greening up the Gowanus can sound impossibly ambitious, the canal volunteers are being quite shrewd, exploiting a section of environmental law that says water quality standards must be brought up to the level of habitual use.
		The Gowanus and other urban canals are so notorious for their filth that it takes an effort of imagination to picture them restored to something approaching nature.
	www.idlewords.com /2005/09/a_voyage_down_the_gowanus.htm (2249 words)

	Gowanus Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Connected to Gowanus Bay in Upper New York Bay, the canal borders the neighborhoods of Red Hook and South Brooklyn on the west and Gowanus/Park Slope on the east.
		The opaqueness of the Gowanus water obstructs sunlight to one third of the six feet needed for aquatic plant growth.
		The Gowanus Artists are a group of over 100 local visual artists that hang out and paint in the Canal's parks, on its bridges, and in their nearby studios.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gowanus_Canal (3305 words)

	Gowanus Canal - NYWiki
		The Gowanus Canal also known as the Gowanus Creek Canal is located in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhoods of South Brooklyn and Red Hook over the former Gowanus Creek.
		The Gowanus Creek Channel is a federally maintained waterway between Gowanus Bay and the canal north of the Hamilton Avenue Bridge.
		Gowanus Bay became one of the manufacturing centers for shipbuilding and gas storage.
	www.nywiki.com /new-york-city/index.php/Gowanus_Canal (567 words)

	Untitled Document
		Gowanus Canal is an estuarine waterbody with a semi-diurnal tidal cycle varying between 5 and 7 feet.
		Gowanus Canal is a classified as a Class SD waterbody with a best use of fishing.
		Gowanus Canal is primarily bounded by commercial and industrial land uses.
	www.hydroqual.com /projects/usa/gowanus_AreaPg.html (284 words)

	Miss Gowanus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Gowanus was once a creek, transformed in the mid 19th century to a canal, which was a major commercial waterway used to transport coal, concrete and oil during the 1800's when Brooklyn's population was exploding.
		The text chronicles the artist growing up on the Gowanus Canal and is interleaved with photographs of the Gowanus from 1867 through 1952.
		The title of the book, Miss Gowanus, refers to the inaugural ceremony for Flushing Tunnel and Sewer System in 1911 at which a young woman wearing a white dress and tossing flower petals from a barge into the Gowanus was hailed "Miss Gowanus".
	www.wsworkshop.org /search/detail.cfm?ID=33 (121 words)

	Gowanus Writing Workshop - fiction & nonfiction creative writing workshops
		The Gowanus Writing Workshop is offering a new series of workshops designed to help participants jumpstart their writing.
		That’s why the Gowanus workshops are best seen as an incubator of talent, rather than a formal class, or lesson plan.
		Gowanus helps participants formulate a roadmap for their own personal journey as writers, and to celebrate milestones along the way.
	www.gowanuswritingworkshop.com (205 words)

	GOWANUS CANAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The prominent feature of the Gowanus neighborhood is the Gowanus Canal, which effectively bisects a neighborhood that is primarily zoned for light to heavy manufacturing.
		The Canal was created in 1848 by widening the original Gowanus Creek into a mile and a half long commercial waterway to provide industrial access to the Gowanus Bay and, ultimately, to the Upper New York Bay and beyond.
		Just as the Gowanus Canal historically fueled the neighborhood’s livelihood by catering to industries reliant on barge service, local residents believe that the Canal will fuel its revival, by functioning as a valuable asset attracting businesses, residents, and recreational visitors to the Gowanus neighborhood.
	www.gowanus.org /gowanus.htm (475 words)

	NEW YORK CITY DEP TO REACTIVATE THE GOWANUS CANAL FLUSHING TUNNEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At the turn of the century, the Gowanus Canal was an active waterway crucial to the City's commerce, but it was heavily polluted by industrial dumping and sewage.
		The reactivation of the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel is yet another step in the City's efforts to improve the infrastructure of the area.
		The construction and upgrading of the Gowanus Pumping Station and the Red Hook Water Pollution Control Plant, as well as the reduction of floatables in the area through the construction of booms and other facilities, have also helped to improve the neighborhood around the Gowanus Canal.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dep/html/news/gowanus.html (560 words)

	Gowanus Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For a narrative account of the Gowanus Canal history, with greater detail on pre-1993 history, click here to download a PDF of an account written by the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment.
		Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation begins agitating for the Gowanus to continue for 25 years; VP Salvatore “Buddy” Scotto (also President of the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association and owner of Scotto Funeral Home) sees San Antonio's Riverwalk as its model
		Gowanus Village development of 350 condominiums on three acres between Carroll and 3 rd Streets is advertised by Africa Israel Investments Ltd and Boymelgreen developers' website (in the very preliminary stages); developers applied for DEC brownfield cleanup program, but the development would require a zoning change
	web.mit.edu /lkc/www/chronology.htm (1426 words)

	Southwest Brooklyn IDC \| Neighborhood - Gowanus
		Soon after the Gowanus Canal was constructed in 1848 to facilitate industrial maritime operations in South Brooklyn, the corridor surrounding the canal developed as a thriving manufacturing area primarily reliant on barge service.
		The Gowanus Canal corridor is an area that has grown, and continues to grow, as a productive, jobs-generating center of economic activity.
		Together, barging activity on the Canal and Gowanus Bay removes roughly 105,500 trucks from the road each year, which not only decreases congestion on our roadways, but allows industry to operate in a more environmentally friendly way.
	www.swbidc.org /gowanus.htm (336 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Drawbridge Operation Regulations: Gowanus Canal, New York
		The Hamilton Avenue Bridge, mile 1.2, also across Gowanus Canal was not included in the roving drawtender plan because the frequency of bridge openings were considerably higher than the other bridges on this waterway.
		The commercial vessel movements on Gowanus Canal are scheduled in advance by the commercial operators.
		The commercial vessel transits on Gowanus Canal are scheduled in advance by the commercial operators.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2000/August/Day-01/i19396.htm (1926 words)

	Place in History \| Brooklyn NY
		In 1998, Place in History launched a two-year, four-part initiative to explore the history and future of the Gowanus Canal, an industrial waterway in the heart of central Brooklyn, and the neighborhoods that surround it.
		The restoration of the garden was a public project designed to celebrate the reopening of the Gowanus Pumping Station, which now flushes the Canal with clean water from New York Harbor.
		As a follow-up to the Gowanus Canal Viewing Boxes installation, Place in History co-director Paul Parkhill and environmental educator Abu Bakr Moulta Ali developed a year-long high school educational program exploring the canal's past, present and future development.
	www.placeinhistory.org /Projects/Gowanus/GowanusMain.htm (368 words)

	Gowanus. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Gowanus, NW section of Brooklyn borough, N.Y. city, SE N.Y., bounded on E by 4th Ave., S by 14th St., W by Smith St., and N by Baltic Ave.; 40°41'N 73°59'W. Part of former S. Brooklyn; bisected N-S by Gowanus Canal.
		Originally settled by Dutch c.1640, grew rapidly as an industrial-warehousing dist. in 1840s with the construction of the canal.
		By late 19th cent., it was a tough, gritty, working-class neighborhood nicknamed the “Gashouse Dist.” Unlike many of the surrounding neighborhoods such as Park Slope, Crown Heights, and Cobble Hill, Gowanus has not improved much over time, and its deterioration has been heightened by the decline in port activity in the area.
	www.bartleby.com /69/15/G03815.html (214 words)

	Time Out New York / Battleground: Gowanus
		Gowanus Village: a retail and residential community, including an esplanade and a park, to be designed by Enrique Norten.
		Marlene Donnelly of Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus says the situation could grow worse as more buildings—not to mention the proposed Atlantic Yards—would increase strain on the canal’s drainage capability (a condition global warming will only exacerbate).
		Craig Hammerman of Community Board 6, which includes Gowanus, is more circumspect, and says he doesn’t think the delays and environmental concerns mean plans are in jeopardy.
	www.timeout.com /newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/565/features/battleground_gowanus.xml (642 words)

	Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour (AGAST) October 21-22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gowanus, Brooklyn and its artists -- The industrial neighborhood surrounding the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York, is home to a wide variety of artists and artisans who work in the former factory buildings and warehouses there.
		The Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour gives the public a chance to personally meet with artists, ask questions and see the environment in which they work.
		The Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour is a sponsored project of the Brooklyn Arts Council.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006/10/prweb447160.htm (519 words)

	GOWANUS CANAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The neighborhoods of Gowanus, Red Hook and Carroll Gardens are connected by their history and share many hopes for the future.
		The construction of the Gowanus Expressway in 1942 and the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in 1950 effectively severed Red Hook, Gowanus and Carroll Gardens.
		Red Hook, Gowanus and Carroll Gardens are now poised to undergo significant changes as a result of the recent environmental and aesthetic improvements along the Canal.
	www.gowanus.org /neighborhoods.htm (399 words)

	Gothamist: Gowanus Expressway Gone By 2020?
		Admittedly, the area under the Gowanus along 3rd Avenue is a complete mess, and even pedestrian crossings in the 50s along the avenue are restricted.
		The line on which the Gowanus was built, for instance, probably became increasingly irrelevant after the building of the BMT's 4th Ave.
		The Gowanus is the only highway I have ever driven on that I am truly afraid will collapse with the weight of the cars that drive on it.
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2006/05/04/gowanus_express.php (2072 words)

	Amazon.com: Gowanus Dogs: Books: Jonathan Frost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Beginning with a scene of a pile of pups inside the darkened whorl of an abandoned cement mixer, Frost thrusts readers into the stimulating world of a mother dog and her three offspring.
		Frost's narrative moves as smoothly as the ships down the Gowanus Canal, and his accomplished drawings of life on the riverway build like film frames to a climactic finish, with homeless man and pup curled up together under a roof of their own.
		Gowanus Dogs is a good entree to a discussion with your child about homelessness and poverty, although I doubt that few real-life endings are as happy as the book's ending.
	www.amazon.com /Gowanus-Dogs-Jonathan-Frost/dp/0374310580 (1391 words)

	GOWANUS PLAYGROUND - Historical Sign
		The word ¡§Gowanus¡¨ comes from the name of a Native American, Gowane, who was either a member of the Mohawks, or a sachem, or chief, of the Canarsee tribe.
		Aside from the canal, Gowanus contains several transportation landmarks, including the tallest subway viaduct in New York City (the F line at Smith and 9th streets, which extends 87.5 feet above the canal), and the Carrol Street Rail Bridge (1889), one of only a few retractile bridges left in the United States.
		Originally named the Gowanus Houses Playground, the park¡¦s name was changed in 1987 to Gowanus Playground to reflect its importance to the entire community.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=7834 (506 words)

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		The Gowanus Canal section of Brooklyn has long been a fascinating neighborhood, caught as it is between affluent Park Slope and Cobble Hill on one side, and tough-as-nails Red Hook on the other.
		For decades, the Gowanus Canal itself was a fetid waterway populated by four-eyed fish and other biological unspeakables.
		Advertisers considered both the IND subway and the Gowanus Expressway as prime territory to imprint their wares on the engrams of commuters making their way into Manhattan from Bay Ridge, Flatbush, Gravesend and all points of Kings County.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /SIGNS/neonbillboard/neon.html (621 words)

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