The Changing Facade of the Gowanus Canal: Inside 365 Bond

By all accounts, the Gowanus Canal was a clean waterway when it was built in 1849. But the industry that it supported, and the combined wet weather and sewage overflows that emptied into it at 10 bank-side locations, made it, to put it lightly, dirtier. In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency designated the canal a Superfund site.Just a year prior, in 2009, developer Toll Brothers Inc. initiated a zoning change to the canal’s waterfront to construct a residential complex with just und