Landscapes

Gowanus Landscapes

Gowanus was the wild west hidden amongst the most expensive real estate in America. The surrounding neighborhoods of south Brooklyn are the glorious brownstone-lined streets of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Park Slope and Red Hook. Every street is full from beginning to end. Not so in Gowanus.

Warehouses used as graffiti canvases, open space, abandoned buildings, a waterfront with few people. It was the last remnant of old New York.

Pasta World at the Gowanus Canal
Pig Beach Panorama with Tyler Daniel
Gowanus Canal Panorama looking at Powerhouse Arts from the promenade at 365 Bond Street. ©Mark D Phillips
CLBY Gowanus Canal Graffiti Gone
Construction has closed the 1889 Carroll Street Bridge and left the Bridge Tender's House as a final relic of the past on the cobblestoned street. ©Mark D Phillips
The old and the new on the Gowanus Canal
A tour boat comes up the Gowanus Canal approaching the Carroll Street bridge in 1998. ©Mark D Phillips
Gowanus Canal 1989
Lucas Gouch graffiti above the Carroll Street Bridge
Graffiti on a warehouse by the Gowanus Canal on March 10, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, by the Carroll Street Bridge, wasn't visible until another building was demolished. ©Mark D Phillips
ISBRANDTSEN was the largest maritime shipping company from the United States to the Mediterranean from the 1950s to the 1970s. When the company filed for bankruptcy in the 1980s, they abandoned their main shipping pier in Gowanus Bay. ©Mark D Phillips

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The Hamilton Avenue bridge has a hidden treasure, a tunnel under the roadway of the bascule bridge with two parallel leafs, one carrying the northbound roadway and the other carrying the southbound roadway. Passing through the tunnel takes you into Gowanus Bay and marks the end of the canal.