We were a little surprised to see Public Place painted green when the F Train came around the bend from Smith-9th Street toward the Carroll Street stop. (Insert joke here about how this is why the Hudson Companies called their winning proposal to develop the property Gowanus Green.) We’d shot a photo of the site totally cleared a few days ago, with the debris having been carted off. Now, it apparently has been seeded for grass. At least, that’s what we think it is rather than just being painted green. The clean up involves preliminary site prep work. There is no remediation plan for the deeply polluted parcel yet