Gowanus Canal: Ninth - Twelfth Streets

The businesses most actively using the canal are on the lower half of the canal and deal with heavy, time-insensitive commodities like gravel, fuel oil and scrap metal that are perfectly suited to shipping by water. Accordingly, a concrete plant, scrap metal yard and fuel oil terminal are located on the west bank of the canal between 9th street and Hamilton Avenue - with ready access to the main roads through the area and water access requiring raising only the Hamilton Parkway bridge.

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Looking east down 9th Street from 2nd Ave
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Warning, Guard Dogs - 2nd Ave
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Ennis Playground - 11th Street btw 2nd/3rd Aves
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Ennis Playground
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Feral cat
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Looking down 2nd Ave from 12th Street - Sanitation Dept. trucks and plows
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Sanitation Dept. truck garage
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Commercial photographer - 2nd Ave btw 12th/13th St
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Warehouse - NW corner of 2nd Ave @ 14th St
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Lowes - Hamilton Place @ 12th St
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2nd Ave side of Lowes
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A strip mall grows in Brooklyn - PathMark - Hamilton Place @ 12th St
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PathMark
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PathMark
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Gowanus Canal between 9th Street and Hamilton Ave
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Concrete plant, scrap metal yard, fuel oil terminal
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Unloading limestone
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Unloading limestone
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Unloading limestone
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Unloading limestone

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