601 Union Street
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Incredible the amount of change or planned. The city needs more of these hot spots. Hopefully as the push for housing increases (due to the dire need), we’ll see more of these nodes pop up.
The future of the city is multi-nodal.
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Amazing work @Alemel 
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What a map!
Also this one if you can find some room :
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I don’t think that one fits on this map. I left out quite a few—these are just some of them. On 4th Avenue alone, there are at least 10 more developments that aren’t shown.
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Alright, what’s with the trojan bear?
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Behind the paywall:
As for how they ended up in Gowanus, the 2021 rezoning incentivized developers to add public art, loosening the requirements for green space along the new public path. (One sculpture equals 100 square feet less of lawn, trees, or shrubs.) With 654 rental apartments, Nevins Landing, between Carroll and Union Streets, is one of the canal’s biggest new developments, and its developer, Sam Charney, is putting in a museum courtyard’s worth of public art, the result of an open call run by Arts Gowanus. In addition to Lewin’s bears, there will be a tiny house by Tom Fruin, a smiley figure by Austin Lee, and one of Adam Parker Smith’s eerie stone cupids. The story of the Ursas “resonated with me,” says Charney, who had already worked with Lewin on a light installation she built for his building in Long Island City and found the scale of the bears “sublime.”
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Haaa!
It’s been a year since I’ve been down to Gowanus and I went today and thought I would get the scoop on these cool larger-than-life figurines they were installing:
Plus some other Gowanus:
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Those bears are really cool, hope they are vandal proof. If that is possible.
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the bears are hibernating right now
in the meantime the base keeps progressing
a glimpse at the arcade
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444 Carroll also advancing
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200 Douglass
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BIG - 175 3rd Street
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and 155 3rd Street
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Quality.
Love it.
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i hopeee the bears light up
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thats a lot
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