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By Michael Ewing 2/13 11:37am

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Artless? (Whole Foods)

Gowanus Little Guys Fear Whole Foods Sludge Will Ruin Artsy Neighborhood

The seven-year roller coaster ride that has been Whole Foods' Brooklyn saga may be taking another nose dive. The blissful ride started in 2005, long before Brian Williams had ever heard of Brooklyn. It slowed to a snail's pace in 2007 and then completely halted in 2008 in the midst of the grotesque Gowanus Canal's Superfunding. New York State was nice enough to clean up the property and set Whole Foods back on track in 2010.

The whole ordeal has left us twisted and nauseous from the bureaucratic and communal ups, downs, and loop-de-loops. (Or maybe the toxins are making us nauseous.) Regardless, Whole Foods might be one rubber stamp away from approval, but the Gowanus locals are not succumbing without one last fight. Read More

By Joseph Alexiou 3/02/10 6:26pm

‘Hallelujah’ for Gowanus Canal, Superfund Site

In the wake of the EPA's decision to designate the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site, pro-designation activists celebrated the morning of the event with jubilant emails and phone calls.

"We did it!" whooped Linda Mariano, a member of the Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus (F.R.O.G.G.), in a phone interview on Tuesday. "I always Read More

By Eliot Brown 3/02/10 4:53pm

Gowanus Canal Goes Superfund, a Blow to Bloomberg

In a blow to the Bloomberg administration, the long-polluted Gowanus Canal has been named a "Superfund" site by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, a move officials fear will squash city planners' visions of a new residential neighborhood sprouting along the waterway.

The Superfund status is intended to give a legal process to round up the money Read More

By Joseph Alexiou 2/04/10 4:59pm

The Jane Jacobs of Gowanus

On a recent sunny Saturday morning, a group of 30- to 40-something Carroll Gardens locals stood outside Carroll Park at a table manned by local community activists, their discussion rife with words like "developers" and "preservation." Upset that the nearby Hannah Senesh Community Day School was seeking a variance that would allow it to acquire public Read More

By Staff 6/15/06 1:11pm

New Dawn for Manufacturing in Sunset Park

The Federal Building. The Center for an Urban Future, a New York City-based "think tank dedicated to independent, fact-based research about critical issues facing New York's future," released a study yesterday urging the city to redevelop two buildings in Sunset Park, smack-dab in the newly minted southwest Brooklyn industrial business zone. The I.B.Z., you'll remember, Read More

By Staff 4/27/06 12:25pm

Atlantic Yards Forum Frenzy

Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn has just sent out the word on two forums tonight. Whether you want to call it Atlantic Yards or "Atlantic Yards," you can do a bit of forum-hopping around Brooklyn tonight. The full release is after the jump. Twofer Thursday One Forum on Ratner's "Atlantic Yards" One Forum on Brooklyn's Sewage Read More

By Staff 11/10/05 1:25pm

Gowanus Jam-Up

While condo conversions of industrial buildings are all the rage, Brooklyn Community Board 6 took a stand against the latest attempt at gentrification in the Gowanus neighborhood last night at its full board meeting, denying a variance for 255 Butler Street, at the corner of Nevins. The planned $27 million development would create 53 market-rate Read More