THE CITY     With nearly unanimous approval Wednesday from the City Planning Commission, the long-in-the-making rezoning of Gowanus head...

    NY Post A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge allowed City Hall to move ahead Monday with controversial plans to build thousands of apartments...

From the NY Times : The Brooklyn-Queens streetcar proposed by Mayor Bill de Blasio could require the construction of two new bridges, one ...

From The Daily Beast : In 2004 de Blasio was a paid adviser to John Edwards’s presidential campaign. And in this year’s mayoral race, his ...

From NY1 : Decades of pollution left the Gowanus Canal toxic. The federal government designated it a superfund cleanup site. Developer L...

From DNA Info : Critics are calling a boat race on the Gowanus Canal this weekend an "irresponsible" stunt designed to advance a...

From the NY Post : They’ve gotten the green light — so long as developers of housing along the toxic Gowanus can keep out the bright-green...

From the Daily News : Brooklyn home prices soared in several sought-after neighborhoods, but plummeted or stayed flat in more than half of...

From DNA Info : The Brooklyn developer and concrete tycoon who hopes to expand his Red Hook shipping terminal with toxic landfill owes the...

From DNA Info : Brooklyn concrete magnate John Quadrozzi wants to take toxic sludge dredged from the Gowanus Canal Superfund site, ship it...

From Pardon Me For Asking : It would seem that Hurricane Sandy and the massive flooding caused by the storm is causing some politicians to...

From the Daily News : The flood waters that inundated the region mixed together a hazardous stew of oil, industrial chemicals and raw sewa...

From The Politicker : With Hurricane Sandy hitting New York, flooding has already occurred along the heavily polluted Gowanus Canal. Thou...

From the NY Post : A group of intrepid Brooklynites have spent at least a year living on four houseboats moored on the ultra-toxic Gowanus C...

From the Brooklyn Paper : The “Superfund stigma” has claimed its first victim, as a development company that once envisioned a 500-unit comp...

From the NY Times : The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it was designating the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn a co...

From Courier-Life : The city’s alternative plan was hatched only after it was announced that the [Gowanus] canal could be named a Superfund ...

From Courier-Life : The Environmental Protection Agency announced it could take 16 years to fully clean Newtown Creek, though local business...

From the NY Times : The Bloomberg administration, sensing a chance for revitalization, rushed to rezone 25 blocks of the Gowanus area for no...

From Found in Brooklyn : F.I.B's eyewitness news team showed up this afternoon for Bloomberg's celebration of the start of work on t...