11 acres is a lot of land, especially in a city where people buy air rights for several hundred dollars a foot. So it’s a sign of just how toxic the land between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal is ...

She’s seas-ing the moment. An Olympic sailor navigated her way though the notoriously filthy and “shocking” shores of the Gowanus Canal Wednesday — just days before she hoists anchor on her bid to ...

The Real Deal reports that the Feds entered into a $3.9 million settlement with Chemtura, the chemical manufacturing firm that was among the many companies the EPA is targeting to recover damages to ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — The infamous Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn is welcoming back canoeists after years of extensive environmental remediation efforts. This milestone marks a significant step in the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- In an Eyewitness News Exclusive report there is bad news for people who leave near one of the toxic waterways in New York. It's taken forever to clean up the polluted Gowanus Canal ...

The ongoing environmental clean-up at Public Place — one of the most contaminated sites in Gowanus and the future home of the massive Gowanus Green development — has ground to a halt, threatening to ...

The Gowanus Canal has been a repository of toxic filth for more than a century. The Environmental Protection Agency released its plan for cleaning up the Gowanus Canal Superfund site yesterday, and as ...

The Environmental Protection Agency reported a delay in the ongoing Gowanus Canal cleanup efforts and community members are worried for their health. The canal was named a Superfund site in 2010, ...

A sewer tank project at the infamous Superfund site is more than six years behind schedule and significantly over budget, the inspector general said. A major construction project designed to help ...

For years, advocates in Brooklyn have warned against the pace of development in the neighborhood around the Gowanus Canal. Now the state is investigating 100 blocks in the neighborhood for potentially ...