{"id":8723,"date":"2017-10-13T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T00:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8723"},"modified":"2017-10-17T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T00:31:54","slug":"8723-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/13\/8723-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Filthy Re-birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/13\/nyregion\/can-gowanus-canal-survive-its-renaissance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Can Gowanus Survive Its Renaissance?<\/h1>\n<p>Brooklyn\u2019s famously filthy canal is getting cleaned up. A building boom is coming. And not everyone is happy.<\/p>\n<p>By <a title=\"More Articles by ANDY NEWMAN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/andy-newman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANDY NEWMAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/10\/15\/nyregion\/15jpgowanus3\/00gowanus20-superJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Stroller traffic on Carroll Street. Stephen Speranza for The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to Venice Jerko.\u201d The greeting is painted in three-foot-high letters on a brick wall along Brooklyn\u2019s legendarily polluted Gowanus Canal, right across from the canal\u2019s first luxury high-rise and its new waterfront promenade.<\/p>\n<p>One recent sunny Sunday, a party of German seminary students and a pair of hotel publicists gathered for a canoe tour. The seminarians had read about the canal in a German travel guide that <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gzKJF7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised<\/a> \u201ca romantic sunset on the water.\u201d The publicists were scouting to see if <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.curbed.com\/2017\/8\/15\/16150644\/gowanus-hotel-baltic-huis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the boutique hotel<\/a>, opening a few blocks away, might want to include guided canoe trips.<\/p>\n<p>But as much as the canal zone has been remade already, the next few years promise, or threaten, a different magnitude of change altogether.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/13\/nyregion\/can-gowanus-canal-survive-its-renaissance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Can Gowanus Survive Its Renaissance? Brooklyn\u2019s famously filthy canal is getting cleaned up. A building boom is coming. And not everyone is happy. By ANDY NEWMAN Stroller traffic on Carroll Street. Stephen Speranza for The New York Times \u201cWelcome to Venice Jerko.\u201d The greeting is painted in three-foot-high letters on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}