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