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Gowanus End Game

Gowanus is dead, Long live Gowanus.

I have expected to say this for at least a decade, and now, post COVID, it is finally here. The Gowanus I photographed for thirty years is officially dead, and the new Gowanus is here to stay. And it’s not my generation’s Gowanus by any stretch of the imagination.

This Gowanus will be enveloped with people and buildings to resemble the riverwalk in Providence, RI, or San Antonio, TX. The wild spirit that existed on its shores and waters is a thing of the past, along with many of its iconic structures and graffiti. Not all of it was bad and some of it was actually good.

End Times, New Construction at the Gowanus Canal is turning it into downtown Brooklyn. ©Mark D Phillips
Gowanus Canal Panorama looking at Powerhouse Arts from the promenade at 365 Bond Street. ©Mark D Phillips
Alex Figliola building gone from Gowanus Canal. ©Mark D Phillips
Urban Nightmare along the Gowanus Canal
Construction along the Gowanus Canal on February 10, 2023
Field of Dreams: New bulkheads are constructed along the shore at the head of the Gowanus Canal beyond the Union Street bridge in July 2020. ©Mark D Phillips
The sign for Eagle Clothes appeared in June of 1951 and after half a century was removed in July 2013 by U-Haul, which owns the building. ©Mark D Phillips
MoversNotShakers Gowanus Canal
Gowanus Canal Urban renewal
Forever Pasta at the Gowanus Canal
Pasta World at the Gowanus Canal
365 Bond Street reflected in the Gowanus Canal

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  • END TIMES: New construction abounds on the shores of the Gowanus Canal.
  • Powerhouse Rebirth: The rebirth of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Powerhouse to the Batcave to Powerhouse Arena
  • Gowanus GONE: Site of the Alex Figliolia Water & Sewer graffiti wall on the Gowanus Canal.
  • Urban Nightmare: Construction underway on a Bond Street lot by the Gowanus Canal.
  • End Game: Construction is the new normal along the canal…
  • Gowanus Superfund: An EPA boat goes up the canal…
  • Gowanus High: A construction worker is dwarfed by the new construction in the Gowanus neighborhood.
  • Eagle Clothes: The sign loomed over the corner of Third Avenue and Sixth Street for more than half a century
  • The Green Gallery: MoversNotShakers, home to two of my Gowanus Canal exhibits. Gone 2023…..
  • Work In Progress: Former location of MoverNotShakers…….
  • FOREVER Pasta: Pasta World building at corner of Bond Street and an empty Degraw Street, gone in 2022.
  • Pasta World: Graffiti at corner of Bond Street and an empty Degraw Street leading to the water of the Gowanus Canal.
  • The Red Pier: One of the first structures on the canal that vanished soon after I took the photograph.
  • A New Beginning: 365 Bond Street brought high end living to the banks of the Gowanus Canal, reflected in the water.

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