Gowanus: Brooklyn's Curious Canal by Joseph Alexiou

Gowanus: Brooklyn's Curious Canal

Joseph Alexiou

400 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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For more than 150 years, Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has been called a cesspool, an industrial dumping ground, and a blemish on the face of the populous borough—as well as one of the most important waterways in the history of New York harbor. Yet its...

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