[CPEO-BIF] New York Times visits the Gowanus (Brooklyn, New York)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

It's Polluted, but the Canal Is Home, and Inspiration

By KAREEM FAHIM
New York Times
March 3, 2010

The rain had stopped; the streets were empty. A block from the Gowanus 
Canal, a woman called Terri squinted into the headlights of passing 
cars, searched for clients and found none.

Her head was wrapped in a powder-blue scarf. The white towers of the 
Wyckoff Houses rose behind her. She had worked these streets in Brooklyn 
for years, as the neighborhood turned from a rusty industrial hub into a 
budding art colony, and lately, a draw for developers dreaming of 
condominiums.

For Terri, little good had come of all that change. "The people moving 
in here don't patronize us," she said, and got back to work, a half hour 
before midnight.

On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency designated the canal a 
Superfund site, a weighty tag with unknown consequences for the artists 
and sex workers, auto mechanics and homeowners who live and trade along 
the border zone called Gowanus.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/nyregion/04ode.html?ref=nyregion

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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