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Gowanus Wonders

September 9, 2016 – 12:51 pm

The mighty and mysterious Gowanus Canal. Subway tracks. The high view. The Bridges. Big truck. Side channel. Trash. The bridge. Angles. Lost under the bridge. Empty road. Red wall.

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The Source Of The Gowanus Canal

October 12, 2015 – 7:26 pm

The native Lenape Indian tribe had fished and hunted the Gowanus Creek since the Ice Age. Gowanus Creek was first explored by Henry Hudson and Giovanni da Verrazzano. The Dutch bought the land to raise tobacco and later built a grist mill to process wheat and corn. The Dutch also harvested oysters by the billions. […]

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Gowanus Dumpster Pool

August 5, 2015 – 4:15 pm

In the summer of 2009 Macro Sea filled two dumpsters with water and opened the Gowanus Canal swimming hole. Jocko Weyland, one the the minds behind the pools, invited me to the opening and I planned on leaping off a nearby roof into the water. Jocko didn’t think this was a good idea. “It’s not […]

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FREE AS THE WIND by Peter Nolan Smith

May 26, 2014 – 3:03 am

Man and woman have emerged naked from their mothers for time immemorial. Nudity is our natural state. Adam and Eve roamed through the Garden of Eden without any Gucci grape leaves covering their genitalia. Despite this biblical precedent New York retains several laws banning public nakedness. Most were written to prevent the spread of pornography, […]

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SailVan on the Gowanus

August 5, 2009 – 3:12 pm

Macro-Sea Pools Presents: Sunset Scavenger, The Last Free Ride, and Others by Bill Daniel Film tramp Bill Daniel (maker of the rail graffiti cult documentary film Who is Bozo Texino? and punk photographer extraordinaire) will be rolling into town to present a video screening on the Sailvan—a van rigged with two full sails that is […]

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