The artist that created the sketch above and the writer of the words below, apparently found his way to the little “park” at the edge of the Lowe’s parking lot on Ninth Street at the Gowanus Canal. Few people ever wander there because you’ve got to cross the entire Lowe’s lot to get there, but […]

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The Gowanus Canal did not disappoint yesterday. The pictures here show the Big G about one hour before high tide yesterday evening. The photos show the canal overflowing its banks at Second Street (above)and at Sackett Street. The other photo shows it within inches of doing the same elsewhere an hour before the high water […]

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No way we could only settle for still pics of the big Gowanus Water Rising Flotilla canoe, so here’s our Brookvid of the festivities. Click on the embed or on this link to watch. You can also catch the still photos in the post below. (As we noted below, the Water Rising theme turned out […]

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If you happened to cross the Gowanus Canal at some point on Saturday afternoon and saw something a little weird–like a 32-foot long canoe with about 20 people in it rowing up the Big G–you were witnessing the Water Rising Flotilla. (We understand that it turns out there is irony here, as the Gowanus waters […]

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