Gowanus Canal: an area of transition
Photo, New York Times.
The New York Times Magazine features a piece today on the Gowanus Canal, and the environmental debate surrounding it as of late. How great is the photo? It’s the canal like I’ve never seen it.
“It’s this area of transition,” a real estate broker named William Duke told me recently. It was a warm weekday evening in September, and we were standing at the trash-strewn terminus of a street that dead-ends into the waterway. “Between the old and the new, the natural world and the man-made world,” Duke went on. “It’s poetic.”
Posted
: October 22nd, 2009 at 5:15 am by Diana Rosenthal under History, Maritime, News.
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Comment from LG
Time: October 25, 2009, 10:16 pm
By ANDREW RICE:
“the city had already announced a $175 million plan to limit the sewer overflow. But that would do little to address an even nastier problem: the bottom of the canal, … Core samples contain a horde of chemicals, some of them now banned, and heavy metals like lead, mercury and arsenic. Probably the most vexing contaminant is coal tar, … spreading subterranean lakes of ooze that have since seeped into the canal’s bed.”
Comment from LG
Time: October 22, 2009, 3:01 pm
Every change in the tide brings transition.