Thought everyone would be interested in the article below from The Observer.
If you think that placing 3,200 new residents along the shores of the heavily polluted Gowanus is insanity, you may want to sign the Defend Gowanus
( No Love Canal Here) petition.
In Gowanus, City Wants 3,200 New Neighbors for Charming Canal
By Eliot Brown
The Bloomberg administration has released new details about its planned rezoning of the area surrounding the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, currently noted for the unappealing industrial sites that dominate the neighborhood. Per an environmental review document (PDF) that went up on the Department of City Planning’s Web site yesterday, the city projects that a rezoning will bring about 3,200 new apartments over the next decade to the area, rising in place of warehouses, industrial and commercial sites, and parking lots.
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