FrogGowanus 🐳

🐸 Neighbors & friends working towards a sustainable, eco-safe and healthy Gowanus Canal district and watershed.

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

So NYC bioswales not only collect street rain runoff, but also the NYC plastic debris that might otherwise have been washed into the harbor and out into the ocean that is quiet overwhelmed with our plastics already.

[JQ LLC @ImpunityCity]

#NewYorkRealm report

The bioswales are not feeling swell @NYCWater

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

Many in our community are grateful for the life and leadership Greg O'Connell brought to the Red Hook. Representative Velazquez's words are spot-on in summarize what many felt about Greg's community centered redevelopment efforts.
https://t.co/oyxetrRX81

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

The real coverup is the ongoing legacy of environmental exposures of residential communities to toxic fossil fuel residues—the EPA calls it NAPL here in Gowanus. Did Biden take on this bull by the horns? Does it look like NYC ever has?

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

His family knew.
Obama definitely knew.
The Deep State covered it up.

3 YEARS AGO…

“That's why I and so many others have cancer…” -Joe Biden

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

Citizen Science 2025 Water Quality Testing by https://t.co/VszBH0q1aS. Here is what the pathogen levels look like at the Gowanus in the vicinity of the street ends at 2nd Street.

"Less Rain, Worse Results! Week 2 of our 20-week enterococcus bacteria sampling season continues"

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

collecting rainwater locally:
https://t.co/RwI48T2xpy

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

Gowanus Canal documentary
by Addison Scott
@GowanusCAG #Gowanus #GowanusHistory
https://t.co/JcgIUbXWZk

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

Wondering where in Gowanus or just all of Gowanus?

[Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf]

Okay, zoomed in. This is allegedly the World Radiation Map, showing dangerously high levels of radiation in Gowanus, Brighton Beach and Coney Island, Brooklyn. Also Watertown CT. Confirmed?

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal @ Principles Coffee House - Saturday, 10/5 at 7pm
If you missed the past performances, here’s your chance to see this amazing musical and support the work of Wes, Brad & Joseph! @voiceofgowanus @GowanusCAG @GowanusCurrent
https://t.co/H6tc1KPsnV

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

At least we don’t expect athletes to compete in the waters of #Gowanus —even though all waters of the USA are to be swimmable under EPA criteria!

@EPAregion2 @EPAwater @NYSDEC @combinedsewer

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Paris spent $1.5 billion to clean up the Seine River for the Olympics.

However, excess rain this past weekend swept millions of gallons of sewage into the river, and triathlon swim training has been canceled for the second day in a row due to E. coli levels.

What a *shit* show.

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

The headline reads like a real change of course is being set, yet the article lays out the same-old/same-old plan: dumping public funding on developers to build more, which has lead to the current glut of ‘markets rate’ units & less affordability for all.

https://t.co/xEi40brSFr

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

@GovKathyHochul Nor should an expecting mom, or newborn, have to live next to or over a NYS DEC cleanup site that is sending toxic odors throughout one's home and community.
https://t.co/3qnuFUUdVH

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

The on going story from Gowanus:
https://t.co/3qnuFUTG69
@NYSDEC #WaitingforEnvJustice

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

@akin_gump Are we seriously looking into real sustainability, or just energy sustainability at the expense of marine life?

[Nicole Shanahan @NicoleShanahan]

Fishermen in Maine are concerned about wind farms and feel they're being unfairly blamed.

Seismic surveying, which uses powerful sound waves to map the ocean floor, can cause temporary or permanent hearing loss in marine mammals, including whales.

"We could be carbon neutral but destroy marine environments. What's better?" Their concerns are valid and deserve consideration.

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

The history of horses in NY is extensive and in Brooklyn too where the ASPCA was founded in Gowanus to provide care for the cart-horses. Gregory Dietrich, the historian behind the Gowanus National Registry Report will be telling more of the story:
https://t.co/kCVSMbYjTH

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

https://t.co/36Rbc5dban

[NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) @NOAACleanCoasts]

A draft assessment plan for the Gowanus Canal in New York City is available for public comment until June 14. After suffering decades of pollution, the Brooklyn canal will be assessed for injuries to its natural resources to compensate the public. https://t.co/yC9wkqoq0K

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

What is up with construction site in Gowanus, Bond St:

[Department of Buildings @NYC_Buildings]

Well that wasn't in the blueprint.

While pouring concrete at a new 23-story building in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood , a concrete pump collapsed during operations and landed precariously between the top of two buildings 😣

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

"What remains to be seen is demand for the market-rate units."
"one-bedroom will be going for more than $4,000 a month and two-bedrooms for more than $6,000"
In other words: who is going to want to live here at these prices?
https://t.co/4Sd1uPT09r

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

@voiceofgowanus

[Piouslymash @piouslymash]

Mr. Thypin’s first reaction to losing the money was shame. He was a rich guy who had gotten taken for a ride by a charismatic hustler — a New York cliché. https://t.co/Lndow9xlos

[FrogGowanus 🐳 @frogg_brooklyn]

Complaining about toxic impacts that result from living amidst Brownfield construction is something that may get the nonprofit corporate-housing groups, and your elected officials, to label you their NIMBY enemies:(https://t.co/wMk6XHB0GR) :

https://t.co/FKX22oMawm

[Christopher Leon Johnson(Leon Christopher Johnson) @Chrislejohnyc]

From Metro Area Governors Island Coalition Press Conference at Foley Square 2/5/24 hosted by @nycdistrict1 @ChrisMarteNYC @laylaLawGisiko @MTOPP4BK @thecityclubny @AllieRyanNYC @DeborahJGlick
https://t.co/Vi99gSEq38
https://t.co/Ul5kjuQU1E