In The Press
Save the eerie canal: Leave the cleanup of Gowanus waters to the city
The blossoming neighborhoods along Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal face becoming dead zones - but not
because of anything in the waterway's famously polluted murk.
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Superfund showdown on the Gowanus
A proposal for a federally overseen clean-up of the Gowanus Canal sounds like something that everyone can get behind, but it's actually pitting neighbor against neighbor over facts and hearsay that are as murky as the waterway itself.
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Toll Brothers' Gowanus Project Sails Through Council
Only Councilman Tony Avella (D-Queens) voted against the project. Meanwhile, Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D-Park Slope), in whose district the project would rise, applauded his fellow lawmakers...
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN - Last month a major new real estate development was announced in Brooklyn, in many ways similar to several other new projects that are underway in the borough. But there is a major difference with this project...
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Carroll Cobble Courier
With a multi-member development team toting a stack of sleek design renderings, Toll Brothers last week unfurled its vision for development along the shores of the Gowanus Canal. "We would like to set the standard..."
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Brooklyn Residents Argue For Gowanus Canal's Potential
Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal was once an infamously polluted body of water — but now the community board wants to pursue a revitalization of the waterway and the
surrounding area. NY1's Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report.
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New day dawning over the Gowanus
The foul Gowanus Canal zone would be reborn as a mixed-use neighborhood of housing, commerce, light industry and — here's the kicker — green open space under the city's long-awaited rezoning plan unveiled last week.
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Toll Plan Has Merit
The battle for the soul of the Gowanus Canal begins on Thursday night. That's when a local community board will kick off the rigorous public review process for a
proposal by Toll Brothers to build a 447-unit mixed-income residential, commercial and open space project between Carroll and Second streets along the banks of the fetid waterway.
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