After 14 years of organizing, NYCHA tenants at the Gowanus Houses have secured the funds to reopen their community center — but their fight isn’t over yet. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and City Councilmember Stephen Levin announced on Thursday that the city budget will allocate an additional $472,000 to renovate the dilapidated community center. […]
When Owen Foote founded the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club in 1999, the club’s inventory consisted of two canoes padlocked to a chain-link fence where Second Street dead ends at the canal. Twenty years later, the Dredgers have dozens of members, a calendar packed with events and a fleet of canoes, which they now store on […]
The city has called a halt to demolition — again — at a historic Gowanus Canal-side industrial building that activists have been trying to save. On Thursday, June 27, the city Buildings Department slapped Red Hook’s S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse at 595 Smith St. with a Full Stop Work Order because of “unsafe demolition,” online […]