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    Connected to Gowanus Bay, a subsection of Upper New York Bay, the Gowanus Canal borders the neighborhoods of Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, and Gowanus, all within...
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    as they made landfall in the Bay. In the 1860s the Gowanus Creek was turned into the Gowanus Canal, and the area became a hub for manufacturing and shipping...
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    highly visible from the elevated Gowanus Expressway and New York City Subway's IND Culver Line viaducts over the Gowanus Canal. Built in 1922, it was immediately...
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  • Retrieved 2021-04-26. "Gowanus Canal Conservancy Gets $130K Grant". Gowanus-Red Hook, NY Patch. 2019-04-15. Retrieved 2021-04-26. Gowanus Canal Conservancy...
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    Road and Targee Street and exit 13A for Clove Road. The Gowanus Expressway was initially the Gowanus Parkway, first planned in the 1930s. Construction of...
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    Carroll Street Bridge (category Gowanus, Brooklyn)
    Street Bridge is a retractable bridge in New York City, crossing the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. It carries a single wooden-decked lane for eastbound vehicular...
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    So What? Press, "The Night Collector" (2013) and "It Came from the Gowanus Canal" (2014). The latter remains one of the series' best-selling issues....
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    York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Carroll Gardens neighborhood on the northeast, Gowanus Canal on the east, and the Upper New...
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  • 1942, the Gowanus Parkway was completed between Hicks Street and the Belt Parkway. The parkway also included a bridge over the Gowanus Canal, a fixed span...
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  • primarily underground except for a short elevated section over the Gowanus Canal. The southern section, between Ditmas Avenue and Coney Island–Stillwell...
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    20, 2013. New York City Dept. of Transportation. "Bridges over the Gowanus Canal". New York City. Retrieved September 20, 2013. Berger, Joseph (May 13...
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    Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, New York, is bounded by several communities including Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook. The canal empties...
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    occupied in the mid-19th century, being located near the industrial Gowanus Canal and ferries. After the completion of Prospect Park, numerous mansions...
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  • Diamond had partnered with John Quadrozzi of Gowanus Bay Terminal (a concrete firm), and the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation in an effort...
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    Smith–Ninth Streets station (category Gowanus, Brooklyn)
    York City Subway. It is located over the Gowanus Canal near the intersection of Smith and Ninth Streets in Gowanus, Brooklyn, and is served by the F and...
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    between Fourth and Fifth Avenues. Gowanus Creek once ran nearby, but today the southeastern branch of the Gowanus Canal ends 1,300 feet (400 m) west of...
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    Madera Canal Orland South Canal Orland North Canal Pioneer Canal Putah South Canal Stine Canal Tehama Colusa Canal Hillsboro Canal Miami Canal North New...
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    Batcave or Gowanus Batcave, is a former transit power station at 153 Second Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York City by the Gowanus Canal. It was built...
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  • Little Caughnawaga (category Gowanus, Brooklyn)
    the Gowanus Canal contained the largest Mohawk settlement beyond the borders of Canada. The neighborhood is now called Boerum Hill or North Gowanus. In...
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  • discovered, years later, simply a body, handcuffed and disposed of in the Gowanus Canal. The writing of Netherland occupied O'Neill for seven years. When it...
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  • 99712 The Gowanus Memorial Artyard was a nonprofit, artist-organized group that put together massive outdoor and indoor art exhibitions in Gowanus, Brooklyn...
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  • fish dangerous to eat. Riverkeeper also acts on Superfund sites like Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek. New York City's two most notoriously polluted waterways...
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    factory complex built for the Coignet Agglomerate Company along the Gowanus Canal. The building has a two-story cast-stone facade above a raised basement...
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    Union Street Bridge (category Gowanus, Brooklyn)
    over the Gowanus Canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The bridge cost $85,206.85 and opened on March 4, 1905. View of the Gowanus Canal from Union...
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    of the IND Culver Line containing two stations spanning the Gowanus Canal in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. In the early 1920s, Mayor John Hylan proposed...
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  • "Day 8: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m." 2010 Bored to Death Eric Episode: "The Gowanus Canal Has Gonorrhea!" 2011–2012 Breakout Kings Ray Zancanelli 23 episodes...
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    drain into the strait on the Long Island side.: 197  The Gowanus Canal was built from Gowanus Creek, which emptied into the river.: 185  Historically,...
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    River, and the northern entrance of Arthur Kill.[citation needed] The Gowanus Canal and Buttermilk Channel are entered from the east. The East River is...
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    (historically called the North River as it passes Manhattan), as well as the Gowanus Canal. It is connected to Lower New York Bay by the Narrows, to Newark Bay...
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  • Proteus and the nearby Gowanus Canal. Proteus Gowanus closed on June 28, 2015. In 2006, The Village Voice praised Proteus Gowanus in its annual "Best of...
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