It Doesn't Take a Hurricane To Cause Flooding In Gowanus Area

Proposed Whole Foods Store on Third Street, just feet away from this intersection.

This is what Third Street looked like this afternoon after about 2" of rain. A Gowanus resident sent me these photos taken at the Third Street Bridge, just feet away from where Whole Foods is planning to building its Gowanus store.

The resident writes:

It doesn't take a hurricane to flood things around here. Traffic is backed up on Third Street as cars try to "navigate" the lakes on the street. The lake on the east side of the bridge formed before the one on the west side. This is the same street that Whole Foods wants to add significant additional car trips per day to while at the same time adding to the flooding problems in the area.

Good point. And may I just add that Third Street is this neighborhood's Hurricane Coastal Evacuation route to Park Slope? What a joke!

At least Community Board 6 will be following up with the Office of Emergency Management to ask that traffic be re-routing to Smith Street in case of flooding. Can you imagine what traffic mess that will create in an evacuation?

From CB6's The Sixth Sense