# NEW YORK | Gowanus Green
**URL:** https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742
**Category:** Proposed
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742 "2019-01-14T17:23:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/1 "2019-01-14T17:23:43Z")
It’s been 40 years since this site was taken by eminent domain, two years since the concrete plant moved out, and two years since this article. It would be nice to hear some development news sometime in the near future.
> **[What's Going on With Gowanus Green?](https://www.brownstoner.com/development/gowanus-canal-gowanus-green-redevelopment-plan-delayed/)**
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> A development slated to bring hundreds of affordable rentals, condos and senior housing to the banks of the Gowanus Canal will not debut this year after all.
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/2 "2019-01-14T17:24:52Z")
 
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/3 "2019-08-22T20:17:56Z")
New perimeter fence going up at the site today.
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### Author:  [@YIMHudson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/YIMHudson)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/4 "2019-08-23T00:00:26Z")
they’re really calling it Gowanus Green? 🤢
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### Author:  [@TravisSolomon](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/TravisSolomon)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/5 "2019-08-23T04:03:58Z")
Is it like we have this kind of construction in the coming future?
Yes!🙂
It looks amazing.
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/6 "2019-08-23T15:11:52Z")
I don’t know if they’re still going with that name, or if they’re preparing the site for construction. They were using the site for initial canal remediation work last year. But this does appear to be green plywood fencing.
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### Author:  [@TravisSolomon](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/TravisSolomon)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/7 "2019-08-24T09:09:32Z")
Is it like it is still in the working condition?
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/8 "2020-11-17T14:37:47Z")
> **[City gives info on Gowanus rezoning at first meeting back](https://www.brooklynpaper.com/gowanus-rezoning-meeting-information-nyc/)**
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> The city finally held a meeting on the Gowanus rezoning after months of radio silence, but gave little new information — frustrating angry locals.
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/9 "2020-11-17T14:38:04Z")
Dec '19:
> **[Long-stalled ‘Gowanus Green’ development will feature nearly 1,000 new...](https://ny.curbed.com/2019/12/3/20993637/gowanus-green-rezoning-1000-new-apartments)**
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> The canal-adjacent project is more than a decade in the making.
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/10 "2020-11-25T18:47:14Z")
Nov. 24 2020:
> **[City Details Affordable Housing, Remediation Plans for Gowanus Green Site](https://citylimits.org/2020/11/24/city-details-affordable-housing-remediation-plans-for-gowanus-green-site/)**
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> Officials are planning six buildings of all affordable housing at the contaminated city-owned site, as well as a park and a public school.
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/11 "2020-11-25T18:47:33Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLysKMjWNbM)
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/12 "2020-11-25T18:59:15Z")
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/13 "2021-03-16T14:27:00Z")
Point:
> **[OPINION: Welcome to Gowanus Green—Brooklyn’s Own Love Canal - Bklyner](https://bklyner.com/opinion-welcome-to-gowanus-green-brooklyns-own-love-canal/)**
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> By Linda LaViolette, Miranda Sielaff and Nora Almeida, VOICE of GOWANUS Advocates of the proposed Gowanus Rezoning claim that a...
Counterpoint:
> **[OPINION: Gowanus Green Opposition Offers Up NIMBY Misinformation Cloaked in...](https://bklyner.com/opinion-gowanus-green-opposition-offers-up-nimby-misinformation-cloaked-in-progressivism/)**
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> Let’s be clear what the opponents want - to stop all development so that some of the wealthiest parts of Brooklyn will remain exclusive enclaves for those who already call these communities home.
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### Author:  [@007](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/007)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/14 "2024-01-30T16:51:09Z")
where is that??
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### Author:  [@abot](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/abot)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/15 "2024-02-07T03:43:00Z")
For an update on what has happened to this site in the past few years:
In Fall 2021, the EPA’s Gowanus Superfund Chief Engineer, Christos Tsiamis, expressed concern about developing the Public Place (Gowanus Green) site. This idea was swiftly rejected by the city and others at the EPA.
In February 2022, community groups Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus (FROGG) and Voice of Gowanus (VOG) sued the city, alleging that not enough had been done to clean up the site to allow rezoning to proceed.
In March 2022, a pro-development minority of Gowanus Community Advisory Group (CAG) members, of which FROGG is a part, sent a letter to the EPA expressing frustration over other members’ overstepping of the CAG’s mission, demanding a refocusing on the Superfund site and threatening resignation. This letter was discovered publicly by other members in January 2023.
**TLDR** : Site appears to be in legal limbo, as detractors voice environmental safety concerns over proceeding of the rezoning
> **[Schism on the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group threatens its existence,...](https://www.star-revue.com/schism-on-the-gowanus-canal-community-advisory-group-threatens-its-existence-by-george-fiala/)**
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> Editors Note: Star-Revue publisher George Fiala has been an at-large member of this group, the CAG, since 2012. If it was just about cleaning the canal, there would be no problems. But even before …
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/16 "2024-05-22T15:32:27Z")
Latest renderings:
> **[Renderings Revealed for Gowanus Green Affordable Housing Complex in Gowanus,...](https://newyorkyimby.com/2024/04/renderings-revealed-for-gowanus-green-affordable-housing-complex-in-gowanus-brooklyn.html)**
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> New renderings reveal Gowanus Green, a six-building, 950-unit affordable complex by Marvel Architects along the Gowanus Canal in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
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### Author:  [@abot](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/abot)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/17 "2026-02-26T15:30:08Z")
> **[Hudson Companies Plans for 302-Unit Residential Building in Gowanus](https://commercialobserver.com/2026/02/hudson-companies-residential-gowanus-20-fifth-street/)**
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> Hudson Companies' application calls for the construction of a 28-story, 100 percent affordable housing building in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Can only pull parts of the article due to paywall-
> New York City-based developer Hudson Companies has submitted plans with the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) to build a 302-unit, 274,205-square-foot residential building on the empty lot at 20 Fifth Street adjacent to the Gowanus Canal.
> The application calls for construction of a 28-story building with 100 percent affordable housing that would include a residents’ lounge, a party room, a courtyard, a rooftop terrace and coworking space. PincusCo first reported news of the filing.
> The project will be built on what’s now a vacant lot at the corner of Fifth Street and Smith Street, on the west side of the Gowanus Canal.
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### Author:  [@JB\_Slope](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JB_Slope)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/18 "2026-02-26T18:21:09Z")
The last plan called for a public school and a small park to be included. I wonder if that’s in scope.
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### Author:  [@5Bfilms](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/5Bfilms)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/19 "2026-02-27T04:31:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Waymond\_Womano](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Waymond_Womano)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2026, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-gowanus-green/4742/20 "2026-03-19T16:35:49Z")
> **[Clean-up, construction inch forward at Gowanus Green amid concerns from...](https://www.brooklynpaper.com/development-gowanus-green-inches-forward/)**
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> After two years of delays and disputes, the developers of the Gowanus Green — the massive affordable housing development set to be built atop one of the most