Gowanus is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 6.
The Gowanus area has been an active center of industrial and shipping
activity since the 1860s. It is zoned for light to mid-level
manufacturing (M1, M2, and M3).
Recently, residential developers have been hindered by the industrial
zoning and the problems of the sewage overflow through the canal water,
but there have been rumors of rezoning by the New York City Department
of City Plannin
g.In 1636, Gowanus Bay was the site of the first settlement by Dutch farmers in what is now Brooklyn.The water and much of the land along the banks of the Gowanus Canal
have been severely polluted from a combination of CSO's (combined sewer
outflows) along the canal designed to relieve sewage and storm water
when the sewer treatment plant is overwhelmed as well as from decades of
industrial use and extensive coal gas manufacturing during the late
19th century. The Gowanus Canal was also an alleged Mafia dumping
ground.The F, G, and R trains run through Gowanus. Bike routes cross the canal on the Union Street and 3rd Street bridges.The Carrol Street bridge is the oldest of the four remaining retractable bridges in the country. It was built in 1889.
Also, in the early 1980s an old nineteenth century munitions factory at
230 3rd Street in Gowanus became the site of the massive Gowanus Memorial Artyard
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