Environmental Protection Agency employees told residents at a Wednesday meeting that they were reviewing a plan that could potentially clean up the first two miles of Newtown Creek at least five years ahead of schedule. The proposal, known as Early Action, would start remediation of the federal Superfund site as early as winter of 2021 […]
The 2019 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse will open to the public on Sept. 27 in a two-century-old house at 13 Pineapple St. The showhouse, brainchild of the Brooklyn Heights Association, will bring 15 Brooklyn-connected designers to the graceful 1830s-era home, situated on a tree-lined street near the Promenade. The designers were hand-picked by BHA organizers, […]
Walt Whitman. Recited at dawn. In canoes. As long as your alarm clock works, it’s magic. The Gowanus Canal — poisoned waters and all — became a place of pure poetry on Wednesday. Devoted Whitmanites paddled out on the canal (which is so polluted it’s a federal Superfund cleanup site) to declaim passages from his […]