Would You Jump Into Your Local River? Swimmable Cities May Be Within Reach as Once-Polluted Waterways Are Restored Efforts to improve the “swimmability” of urban areas are gaining global traction, from Paris to Chicago

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Hey #Zohran you've emphasized #affordability, but what about #SWIMMABILITY? www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... #climate #climatechange #water #rivers #waterrights #environment #gowanus #NYC #hudson #hudsonriver #eastriver #brooklyn

SEE IT! Small Japanese Pickup Truck Shows Bigger is Definitely Not Better - Streetsblog New York City One Brooklyn business has seen the future of safe streets and heavy lugging — and it's going to be O-KEI!

Time for #sustainable #Japanese #truck of the #Gowanus

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/31/s... #brooklyn

A color photograph taken in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. In the background, the tallest elevated subway station in New York City. Smith-9th Street. In the middle ground, workers are shown cleaning up an oil spill that happened on the grounds of a heating oil distribution station. A view of part of the pumps they use are seen on the right side of the photo. Workers dressed in yellow vinyl suits have dropped oil spill kit absorbing powder and in the process of sweeping it up. In the foreground, a red fire alarm call box with graffiti tagged on it. The scene is presented on a bright and sunny day with long shadows with the sunlight coming from the right side of the photo.

Daily Random #679
Cleaning up oil spill at the CIBRO heating oil depot
Gowanus/Brooklyn NYC 1987
(Smith-9th Street elevated subway station in background)
#OilSpill #Photography #RedHookBrooklyn #Gowanus

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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @transalt.org @socialists.nyc Douglass and 4th in the #Gowanus: #Zohran, #sidewalks are for people not #cars where is much - vaulted #DOT enforcement? #brooklyn #airquality #climate

Watch Naughtysammx live on Chaturbate! Take off pant [882 tokens left] #18 #latina #teen #squirt #bigass

chaturbate.com/in/?tour=Upr... #Brooklyn #Williamsburg #Bushwick #Greenpoint #DUMBO #BrooklynHeights #CobbleHill #CarrollGardens #RedHook #ParkSlope #Gowanus #FortGreene #ClintonHill #BedfordStuyvesant #CrownHeights

This Valentine's Day, I'm tabling at Pop Up Gallery's NY market at Wild East Brewing from 1-5 PM. It might be the only market I'm doing this month!

#vday #gowanus

#Snow #and #Snowstorms #Cold #and #Cold #Spells #Parking #Ice #Gowanus #(Brooklyn,

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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @bfurnas.bsky.social #Parking #impunity on #Nevins in #Gowanus: what a #metaphor since #Lander should have never allowed this #construction #boondoggle in the middle of a #floodplain in the first place #brooklyn #climate #airquality

Bright green Mini automobile on Third Ave in Brooklyn

Third Ave Mini
#brooklyn #mini #bklyn #4x4 #streetphotography #photography
#gowanus

Located on the border of Gowanus and Park Slope in Brooklyn, the Garfield Place Substation is still in use and looks nearly identical today as it did in 1968, with its transit authority "TA" logo.

Located on the border of Gowanus and Park Slope in Brooklyn, the Garfield Place Substation is still in use and looks nearly identical today as it did in 1968.

This #NYTMCollection photo shows the BMT 4 Ave—Garfield Place Substation in 1968 versus today. It is one of 218 substations in our system. Located on the border of #Gowanus and #ParkSlope in Brooklyn, the Garfield Place Substation is still in use and looks nearly identical today as it did in 1968.

Agree: no more #boondoggle #Borg - like " #affordable" #housing in #toxic #Gowanus #floodplain

@cmshahanahanif.bsky.social Step outside your office on #BondStreet and head over to other side of #Gowanus: last time I checked, the fact that #construction exists still doesn't allow you to #park in street and #sidewalk protect #pedestrian rights! #climate #suvs #airquality #brooklyn

And yet, the #building boom continues in #Gowanus, a #floodplain which will be inundated with #toxic #sludge it's called SHORT - TERMISM
www.sciencealert.com/millions-of-... #realestate #climate #construction

Gowanus Open Studios 2025 Left: “Eye Study no. 11: Angel” by Eliza Stein. Right: “Horizons no. 2” by Laura J. Stein. On October 18-19, from noon to 6pm, come visit me at Gowanus Open Studios in Brook…

come to my show... come to my showww... elizastein.com/2025/10/10/g...
#art #gowanus #artsgowanus

Looks like #Singapore too bad the #Gowanus is gonna #flood

2 and sometimes 4 helicopters have been hovering overhead for the past half hour - maybe an accident on the BQE by the Gowanus Canal? One has been steady hover and the other two zoom in an out. Very annoying! #gowanus

A juvenile black crowned night heron sits on a wire cage holding rocks. Plants and water are behind the bird.

A juvenile black crowned night heron sits on a metal bulkhead edge with it's back to the camera. It's left wing is stretched out.

A juvenile black crowned night heron sits on the edge of a brown metal bulkhead, peering between out of focus crab apple branches.

This group of Black Crowned Night Herons has been showing up along the canal all summer, so happy to see them! I counted 6 tucked in along the 3rd st. turning basin, Gary saw 7 earlier. Their rookery must be nearby - hope they stick around!
#BCNH #brooklynbirds #gowanus

How Amsterdam will transform into a circular city by 2050 YouTube video by New Scientist

Wonder if any of these ideas are even remotely being considered by politicians in #Brooklyn or applied to the #Gowanus Canal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdso... #sustainability #zerowaste #pollution #solar @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social

Park Slope's 4th Avenue during the construction of the R train 115 years ago.

#ParkSlope 115 years ago! Taken in 1910, this #NYTMCollection cyanotype photograph shows 4th Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets in Park Slope / #Gowanus, #Brooklyn during the construction of the BMT Fourth Avenue Line (today’s R train).

Then Beyondo Band at Lowlands. Eric Biondo with a band of NYC try-not-to-miss's. Progressive funk-and-groove, the kind of stuff the city used to thrive on back at the turn of the century. The place was *hopping*. Great music, great vibe, great room.

#nycfreaks #livemusic #brooklyn #gowanus

Brooklyn #bikenyc, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is planning a big cleanup of a site in #Gowanus abutting the Bergen St. lane. Send them a comment now thru 10/5 about keeping the lane clear or setting up a safe detour. extapps.dec.ny.gov/data/der/fac...

#Irony: new #Gowanus #mural highlighting dirty air is unfair located one block from fallen #cyclist #memento

Time for new #mural featuring #dolphin 🐬 in the #Gowanus

Tonight: one of those "I knew it was gonna be good, didn't think it was gonna be *that* good" sets down at Lowlands. Guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi backed by Stomu Takeishi on bass and Michael W Davis on drums and they had an almost Wayne Krantz Trio-lite thing […]

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Would you swim in the Gowanus Canal? A new proposal could make it happen Brooklyn’s canal cleanup inches closer to swim time

Sounds like one might test the black #mayonnaise by 2035

www.timeout.com/newyork/news... #gowanuscanal #gowanus #brooklyn #water

I’m glad the Columbia Street Waterfront community is being careful and not falling for the same promises that Senator Andrew Gounardes and Council Member Shahana Hanif made in other neighborhoods.1/3

#nycnews #news #nycpolitics #politics #nyc #brooklyn #gowanus #gowansbrooklyn