UPDATE 9:46 am: Pardon Me For Asking is reporting that the EPA has just announced that is has put the Gowanus Canal on the Superfund list. We can’t find a press release or mention on the EPA site ...

GOWANUS — I’ll never forget the first time I saw humans on the Gowanus Canal. It was summer in early August, and I was standing on the Third Street Bridge. As the Venetian stench of the canal wafted ...

A newly constructed Department of Sanitation facility in Gowanus serves two purposes: expanding snow and composting operations to Brooklyn, and making space for a long-delayed part of the Gowanus ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — The infamous Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn is welcoming back canoeists after years of extensive environmental remediation efforts. This milestone marks a significant step in the ...

After residents in Gowanus voiced concerns over potential air contamination from construction at the Superfund Gowanus Canal site, the area EPA office helped show residents how a new mobile unit would ...

The chickens have almost come to roost for those concerned about the EPA plan to clean up the Gowanus Canal. Those who wanted the canal to be cleaned up, but not by the federal EPA, have just ...

Gowanus has long been smelly. As far back as 1864, a resident claimed the canal stunk so bad it killed his father-in-law. Then, as now, to live in the neighborhood is to live among its odors. They ...

For nearly two decades, those of us working to bring truly affordable housing to Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood have been ...

For nearly a year now, the Department of Environmental Conservation has been quietly investigating 100 blocks in Gowanus for the presence of cancer-causing fumes, a response to the high concentrations ...