NYC has a rich, pungent history of smelly places, which makes us wonder why historic preservationists have yet to oppose the latest attempt to clean lovely Gowanus Canal. The folks at the Gowanus Canal Conservancy are teaming up w/ landscape architect Susannah Drake to design a small (movement-starting?) "Sponge Park" (something about sucking). Bigwigs are apparently sort of supporting them (e.g. Brookyn councilman David Yassky) with a truly wopping 638K in "capital funding" at the outset. Only 638K? We're looking at you, High Line...
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