Drawbridge Ahead

Taken under the Gowanus Expressway, but about the canal.

The Grain Fleet

Taken from the Red Hook Recreational Area in South Brooklyn.

Table Cloth-Shirt

Taken from a platform of the Smith and 9th Subway station in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn.  This station is one of two stations that sits on the elevated Culver Viaduct, which elevated subway service above the Gowanus Canal, is the highest point of elevation in the entire system, carries the G and F trains, and is currently under heavy construction.  Given its elevation, you can see many parts of the city including most of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Statue of Liberty, which may be seen here.

Bayside Fuel Oil Depot

Taken on Smith Street, near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn...

Exact location is geotagged in Flickr, you may see it by clicking on the image...

Superfund Site in Progress

A small tributary of Gowanus Bay, near the mouth of the Gowanus Canal in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The only flow of the water being tidal, you can just image how putrid this water is...

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Gowanus Mouth

Her breath was only a little funky today, but you haven't seen nothing until something stirs up the sediment; then you will know the true meaning of the word stench. One way in, no way out, and continuing sewer overflows (with varying difficulties and levels of success in historic attempts to flush the canal) the water in the "notorious" Gowanus canal is still pretty stagnant. At one point, the canal was an important method of transport through the manufacturing heart of Brooklyn. The elevated highway to the left is the Gowanus Expressway. Looking right toward the bay where the canal begins at the Port of New York in Red Hook...

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