The Gowanus Houses is a housing project of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), located between Douglass and Wyckoff Streets & Bond and Hoyt Streets in both the Gowanus and Boerum Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn. It sits on 12.57 acres (5.09 ha) of land, consisting of sixteen separate buildings. As of December 2022, the housing development accommodates over 2,600 residents in 1,139 apartment units.[1]
^ ab"Gowanus Houses at a Glance" (PDF). New York City Housing Authority. December 2022. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
Rush Gowanus Area Housing Plans". The Brooklyn Citizen. February 26, 1945. Retrieved September 22, 2023. "Officials Start Work On GowanusHouses". The...
Template:Attached KML/Gowanus Canal KML is from Wikidata The Gowanus Canal (originally known as the Gowanus Creek) is a 1.8-mile-long (2.9 km) canal in...
setting of Spike Lee's movie Clockers (1995), which was filmed in the GowanusHouses. It is the setting for two of Jonathan Lethem's novels: Motherless Brooklyn...
the Batcave or Gowanus Batcave, is a former transit power station at 153 Second Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York City by the Gowanus Canal. It was...
Road and Targee Street and exit 13A for Clove Road. The Gowanus Expressway was initially the Gowanus Parkway, first planned in the 1930s. Construction of...
its first development, the First Houses, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The parcel of land the houses were located on were purchased from...
Riccio and Bill Slocum, featured real accounts of the Gowanus Boys. The gang was located in the Gowanus section of South Brooklyn, and was one of the earlier...
highly visible from the elevated Gowanus Expressway and New York City Subway's IND Culver Line viaducts over the Gowanus Canal. Built in 1922, it was immediately...
expanded the Gowanus Creek into a canal.: 167 This resulted in the surrounding swamp being dried up, making it desirable for development. The Gowanus Canal...
Location: Red Hook, Brooklyn – south end of Court Street, on the waterfront (Gowanus Canal) Currently: industrial Union Grounds Home of: Eckford – independent...
(characters co-created by, 2018) "It Came from the Gowanus Canal" (artist, 2014) & "It Came from the Gowanus Canal...Again!" (characters co-created by, 2017)...
settlement grew and the entire southern tier of present-day Brooklyn, from Gowanus Creek to Coney Island to Gerritsen Creek, was "purchased" in 1645 from...
adjacent to the Gowanus Road. Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons and Colonel Atlee were stationed farther north on the Gowanus Road. Parsons was...
waterfront from Gowanus to Greenpoint was developed with piers and factories. Industrial access to the waterfront was improved by the Gowanus Canal and the...
Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Gowanus, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Brooklyn Heights, Bedford...
September 15, 2015. Roberts, Sam (January 8, 2016). "Stories of Brooklyn, From Gowanus to the Heights". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August...
encompassing what are now the Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and Red Hook neighborhoods. It...
6, 2020. Landmarks Preservation Commission 2012, p. 8. "Gowanus Canal History". The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club. Archived from the original on August...
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