The Gowanus Canal: Union Street / President Street
The Union Street Bridge (NYC BIN #2240270) is a double-leaf Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge that opened in 1904. The bridge carries two 17-foot-wide eastbound landes and two six-foot-wide sidewalks over the Gowanus Canal. It replaced a narrow 17-foot-wide pipe truss swing bridge and was built under the same contract with the replacement Third and Ninth Street Bridges.
The Satori Condos at 340 Bond (btw President and Carroll Sts) are a pleasant example of about the best you can expect from gentrification. Tastefully in context with the other low-rise historic buildings in the neighborhood, it is more than can be expected from the steroidal luxury glass towers that will probably rise along the canal at some point.
Looking west toward the Union St. Bridge
Union Street Bridge deck viewed from the southeast
Union Street Bridge viewed from the south
Maritime themed flagpole - Union at Nevins St
Green building - Bond at Union Sts
Green building
Residential building - Bond at Union Sts
Bond Street north of Union
Bond Street north of Union
Crusader Candle - Nevins at President St
Old row houses off Carroll Street at Nevins
Gallagher and Company - 426 President at Bond
Satori Condos
Satori Condos
Satori Condos