Gowanus

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 Planning. 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...