Gowanus

Proper noun

Meaning

Gowanus

A neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Examples

Alan Harding has been named the chef at the soon-to-open Gowanus seafood stand. Source: Internet

As people who've seen my paintings know, I'm a sucker for derelict infrastructure, and on both counts the Gowanus delivered. Source: Internet

Cleaning Our Waterways: The long-awaited cleanse of the toxic Gowanus Canal got stuck in the muck yet again last month when workers hit a roadblock during one of the simplest parts of the cleanup, according to the man in charge of it. Source: Internet

Worker Seriously Hurt by Steel Beam That Fell From Gowanus Expy., FDNY Says - Sunset Park - New York - DNAinfoThe DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC. Source: Internet

Though the plans for greening up the Gowanus can sound impossibly ambitious, the canal volunteers are being quite shrewd, exploiting a section of environmental law that says water quality standards must be brought up to the level of habitual use. Source: Internet

Cleaning Our Waterways: The feds cast doubt on the city’s plan to clean the Gowanus Canal — but admit that the Superfund plan would not fix the biggest problem: the hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage that end up in the canal whenever it rains. Source: Internet

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