nydailynews.com - 7/7/2009
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It's the battle for the Gowanus Canal. The controversy surrounding the polluted waterway has inspired great passions on both sides in Carroll Gardens, complete with posters, buttons, flyers, marathon meetings and YouTube videos.
brooklynpaper.com - 7/8/2009
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brooklynpaper.com —
Whole Foods has shelved its plans to open
its first Brooklyn branch on Third Avenue near the...
Gowanus Canal, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. The grocery chain, known for its high-end food and prices to match, said on Wednesday that it does still hope ...
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Breaking news! ‘Whole’ lot of nothing as ...
brooklyntheborough.com - 7/8/2009
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brooklyntheborough.com —
Overlooking the Gowanus Canal from 9th Street
On a recent sunny afternoon, a young woman stood...
on the 9th Street bridge that passes over the Gowanus Canal near Smith Street, sketchpad and pencil in hand, studying the body of water before ...
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Super Fight Over Gowanus Superfund! Bloomberg Sides With ...
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The Real Deal New York - Latest News —
1. Summer expected to bring rise in homeless families [NYT] 2. Citigroup takes its lending channel off a temporary suspension [Housing Wire] 3. S&P increases expectations for losses on risky loans backing U.S. mortgage securities [Reuters] 4. Residents show support for making the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site [NYDN] 5. Bangkok Bank Public Co. expands at 29 Broadway [Post, 2nd item] 6. Federal judge allows General Motors to restructure [NYT]
Homelessness expected to jump ... and more
The Real Deal New York - Latest News —
1. Summer expected to bring rise in homeless families [NYT] 2. Citigroup takes its lending channel off a temporary suspension [Housing Wire] 3. S&P increases expectations for losses on risky loans backing U.S. mortgage securities [Reuters] 4. Residents show support for making the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site [NYDN] 5. Bangkok Bank Public Co. expands at 29 Broadway [Post, 2nd item] 6. Federal judge allows General Motors to restructure [NYT]
Summertime Surge in Homeless Families
City Room —
... during the playing of “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch, thanks to a settlement reached yesterday in Manhattan federal court. Signing off on the deal were the Yankees, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Queens resident Bradford Campeau-Laurion, who was thrown out of Yankee Stadium last year after trying to hit the head midtune. [New York Post] The controversy surrounding the Gowanus Canal has inspired great passions on both sides in Carroll Gardens, complete with posters, buttons, flyers, marathon meetings and YouTube videos. [Daily News]
Tuesday AM Linkage
Curbed NY —
... · New 96th Street subway station will have piped in sounds of nature [NY1]
· Latest WTC flare-up highlights failures on all sides [NYT]
· Desperate times: Landlord gives up own floor to retain office tenant [NYP]
· Key development jobs at state agencies go vacant [ArchPaper]
· It's the stink that make photographer fall in love with Gowanus Canal [NYT]
· Wading into both sides of the Gowanus Canal Superfund issue [NYDN]
· Two ...
Gowanus Canal as Battleground, Muse
Gothamist —
... As the battle for the Gowanus Canal continues, and Superfund supporters bring their campaign from doorsteps to YouTube, the NY Times looks at the canal as one man's artistic muse (and it's not the first time).
Jose Gaytan, a local photographer, has walked to the canal each day for six years, saying it makes him nostalgic for his childhood in 1950s Mexico. “When I was growing up in Juárez, my grandfather was a handyman who took me on jobs with him. The first thing he would do was go to the junkyards in Juárez to buy toilets and things ...
Who will clean the Gowanus?
Brooklyn Green Team —
... The battle for the Gowanus Canal: Fight over Superfunding grows And if you're in the vicinity of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza, check out the exhibit “Brooklyn in Transition: A Photographic Essay of the Gowanus," which is currently on display in the Grand Lobby. ...
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Must Watch: "The City's Broken Promise: Superfunding the Gowanus"
pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com 7/7/2009 — Still not convinced that EPA Superfund listing is the only way that the Gowanus Canal will ever truly be cleaned? Then you have to watch this video. It was made by Peter Pierce who wanted to show " the rationale for Superfunding the Gowanus Canal as opposed to adopting Mayor ...
C.O.R.D. Has No Doubt Superfund Is Best For Gowanus Canal
pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com 7/2/2009 — The waters of the Gowanus Canal My friends of The Coalition For Respectful Development (CORD) have just released a statement regarding the proposed listing of the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site. After attending every meeting held, both by the EPA and by the City, after researching ...
The Gowanus Canal has ALWAYS been Stigmatized...Superfund Gownus!
foundinbrooklyn.blogspot.com 7/7/2009 — Fabulous FROGG founder, Linda Mariano, shown on the Carroll Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal, is campaigning for the Superfund.This wonderful article is reprinted from yesterday's Daily News. Please do not forget to comment on the EPA's website, ...
Last Day To Comment On Gowanus Canal Superfund Listing
pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com 7/8/2009 — Seen On Smith Street Just a reminder, dear Reader. Today is the last day to submit your testimony to the EPA regarding the listing of the Gowanus Canal as as Superfund site. If you have not done so yet, I urge you to do so. Carroll Gardener JL did. Below is his testimony. ...
The Gowanus Canal? It's A 'Crying' Shame
pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com 6/15/2009 — Photo credit: Carolina Castillo Little Miss Alaia was rather blue about the polluted state of the Gowanus Canal. She expressed her displeasure rather loudly. Would this waterway be cleaned up in her lifetime, she wondered? She seemed much more pleased about the prospect of ...
How Safe Is It To Garden Along The Shores Of The Gowanus Canal?
pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com 5/21/2009 — Though I certainly do not like to be an alarmist, the poster above, announcing the monthly clean-up of the Gowanus Canal Conservency certainly makes me uneasy. In light the EPA's proposal to place the Gowanus Canal on the list of Superfund sites, it would seem that digging in ...
EPA Wants To List the Gowanus Canal As A Superfund Site
onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com 4/8/2009 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to add the Gowanus Canal to the Agency’s Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). That could mean that the Gowanus Canal will one day be clean and beautiful and not the stinky, toxic mess that it ...
Gowanus Canal: Superfund Site?
firstandcourt.blogspot.com 4/8/2009 — This still needs some digesting. First heard rumors on this last Thursday, but without any substantive detail. Below is the press release issued by EPA, in full (emphasis added): Press Release Region 2 - New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. ...
Great Trans-Gowanus Cable Takes To The Canal
gothamist.com 7/10/2009 — As Whole Foods confirms there will be no ribbon cutting for a store on the Gowanus, this Sunday there will be a ribbon cutting for the Great Trans-Gowanus Cable ( flyer here ). The organizers explain: "We will be building a telegraph along and ...
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