[Photo courtesy of erinmelina/Gl Flickr Pool] We do find sea level photo of the Gowanus Canal compelling, so here’s the second one of the morning that was contributed to our Gowanus Lounge Photo Pool by erinmelina. This one was shot under the Union Street Bridge, heading for the foul end of the canal where a […]

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[Photo courtesy of erinmelina/GL Flickr Pool] This is a sea level of the Gowanus Canal, which is something we do love. The photographer writes, “I think this is right before we saw the dead floating rat.”

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We reread this news release a number of times to make sure that (a). we weren’t seeing things and (b). it wasn’t dated April 1. The thumbnail is that two professors from New York City College of Technology think that some of the gunk in the Gowanus Canal could be the source of new antibiotics […]

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[Photo courtesy of Sail Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s the Gowanus Canal as night falls, courtesy of Sail Brooklyn and our GL Flickr Pool.

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This vid comes from GL Flickr Pool contributor jplpagan. Just a little bit of Gowanus Canal Jellyfish Zen.

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[Photo courtesy of woodendesigner/GL Flickr Photo Pool] Anyone who knows the Gowanus Canal has seen this sort of thing before. In this case, we’ll let Woodendesigner, the photographer who contributed this to our GL Flickr Pool, explain: “So I was walking back home from Park Slope the other day and saw this stuff floating in […]

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[Image courtesy of Sail Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a shot of a sumer Saturday in Gowanus, with a concert at the Yard and some people watching from the Carroll Street Bridge. The image comes from Sail Brooklyn via our GL Photo Pool.

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[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle/Mirabelle Studios] Here’s a striking and altered image of the Gowanus Canal between Hamilton Avenue and Ninth Street. It’s an interesting take on a very active industrial part of the Canal.

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The Gowanus Canal takes a major hit of both storm sewer and household sewer runoff during heavy storms and the recent weekend storms have not been kind to it. After yesterday’s storm, the water level in the canal was alarmingly high, but what was worse was the condition of the water itself: filthy, brackish, full […]

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Saturday’s most thunderstorm in late afternoon apparently caused some of the usual flooding issues near the Gowanus Canal. These are scenes from Ninth Street near the Lowe’s, where flooding is common during big downpours and rainstorms. A series of photos taken on Ninth Street yesterday evening around 7PM was placed in our GL Photo Pool […]

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The body of water in the photo is the Gowanus Canal. The graceful creature is an egret. It was at the foot of Second Street at the boat launch used by the Gowanus Dredgers.

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We had the pleasure of going up the Gowanus Canal on a New York Water Taxi on a tour sponsored by our friends at the Center for the Urban Environment, whose posts appear on GL every week. Here’s a little vid of the cruise that shows all those drawbridges in action and water views of […]

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There’s an update meeting coming up on the Public Place site between the Gowanus Canal and Smith Street, which will be developed into a large mixed use project called Gowanus Green by a development team that includes the Hudson Companies,the Bluestone Organization, Fifth Avenue Committee and Jonathan Rose Companies. It will take place on Thursday, […]

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Have jumped into our GL Photo Pool yet? We’d love to see your photos, so please join and/or tag you photos “gowanuslounge.” [Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Bred/GL Flickr Pool] This is the view of the placid waters of the Gowanus Canal on a nice summer evening that found its way into our Gowanus Lounge Flickr […]

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We took a cruise up the Gowanus canal yesterday with the Center for the Urban Environment, which produces great posts every week for us. (See Ruth Edebohl’s post coming up in a bit, for an example.) We’re not sure what was better: passing under most of the drawbridges on the canal, enjoying the sea level […]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run: Park Slope: Celebrating 35 Years as a Historic District. Saturday, June 21 – 11am – 1 pm – with Matt Postal. In July 1973, Park Slope became an historic district, preserving one of Brooklyn’s finest residential neighborhoods. […]

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Actually, this post about the presentation of the Sponge Park Concept to a Community Board 6 committee this week is simply a convenient excuse to run one of the cool renderings of the concept again. In any case, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy will be presenting the design to the Parks Committee of CB 6. The […]

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We got a reminder about a screening of Lavender Lake, a documentary about our favorite Brooklyn canal, the Gowanus, via both the Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus (FROGG) and the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association (CGNA). The screening takes place tonight (6/13) at 7:30PM at Spoke the Hub, which is located at 295 Douglass Street […]

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We’ve seen this image of a bucolic Gowanus Bay before, but we’re taken by it when we clicked over to the Ephemeral New York post courtesy of a Brownstoner link yesterday evening. ENY says it’s “An 1851 oil painting by Australian artist Henry Gritten. The full title is ‘Sun Set at Gowanus Bay in the […]

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These are horseshoe crabs that we saw the other day in the Gowanus Canal near the Carroll Street Bridge. While this may look like horseshoe crabs possibly having sex, we’re not sure, as they tend to mate in sand and on shorelines. In any case, we’re always mesmerized whenever we see anything alive in the […]

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We’re very tempted to call this Department of Environmental Protection boat, the Jamaica Bay, which was docked at the Carroll Street Bridge yesterday as part of the Gowanus Goes Green event, the Turd Boat. That, however, would be wrong, as it is intended to pick up far more than crap from the surface of the […]

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We spent some time at the Gowanus Goes Green festival sponsored by the Gowanus Canal Conservancy on the shores of the beautiful Gowanus. The fest took place on Carroll Street, where a variety of groups and businesses had tables and booths set up, and on the grounds of The Yard. (Said grounds are really nice […]

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The Gowanus Goes Green festival is happening today on the grounds of The Yard, which is on the Gowanus Canal at the Carroll Street Bridge. The day features a peformance by Brooklyn rockabilly band the Defibulators, food and beverages from V-Spot, Union Hall and the Treats Truck, and lots of stuff from local green businesses […]

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In honor of today’s Gowanus Goes Green event, here are some vids posted up on the YouTube related to Gowanus and the canal.

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The prime areas of rezoning interest in Gowanus will be the area around the Gowanus Canal itself, where some of the biggest projects might someday rise. City Planning envisions a canal that will someday have a 40′ foot wide public esplanade on both side (a Sponge Park has also been proposed independently) and buildings rising […]

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