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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

From: Cataldo, Tim <Tim.Cataldo@coei.org>
To: <lsiegel@cpeo.org>


Elizabeth Royte profiles the Gowanus Canal in her book Garbageland, 
which is an engaging, entertaining, insightful and downright good read. 
The canal is not far from her home and she describes it in a way that 
you easily imagine the sights (and smells ;-) Highly recommended.

Tim Cataldo, LEED-AP
Brownfield Coordinator
City of Elkhart
229. S. Second St.
Elkhart, IN 46516
574.294.5471    ext 114
574.320.4046    (cell)
tim.cataldo@coei.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Lenny Siegel [mailto:lennysiegel@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:32 AM
To: Brownfields Internet Forum
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New York Times visits the Gowanus (Brooklyn, New York)

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.


...

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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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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