October 3, 2007
Beware the Gowanus Canal (or At Least Use Protection)
Green Brooklyn (via Brownstoner) has a not-surprising-as-it-should-be post on, well, the Gowanus Canal having a touch of the gonohorrea. According to a Scienceline article, "a biologist at the New York City College of Technology, has her students analyze water samples and observe the oily substance that coats the water’s surface each afternoon. 'One group of students found gonohorrea in a water drop,' said Haque. She’s particularly interested in fluorescent white gauze that lies near the canal’s bottom, and thinks that the substance is a colonizing life form that adheres to the contaminated sediments."
Suddenly looking at these recent photos of swans on the canal is less heartwarming. Green Brooklyn suggests writing a note to Bloomberg to make him aware of this, especially prior to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's stakeholder meeting later this month.
In the meantime, you probably don't want to date anyone in the The Gowanus Dredgers canoe club.
Photo via Keith Allison's Flickr.
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the canal has the clap? so, does that mean that the swans have goose gonorrhea? avian VD? the crabs in the canal, too? teeming with life, indeed.
That's a good point 5:46, what's worse: avian flu or avian gonorrhea? Makes ya think.
"I sware, honey, I wasnt sleeping around. I'm just a member of the Gowanus Dredgers canoe club."
are all the new york transplants on prozac?
the gowanus is a toxic dump. yeah i get that you think you can get through life unharmed cause you truly understand urban poverty even though you are white, probably jewish east coast graduates, but contracting syphillis in a toxic canal is not the answer to your self-hatred.
well, ok, not just jewish. catholics and protestants and atheists can go in that category too.
My point stands though, who in there right mind would canoe down that thing?
I'm shocked, shocked to learn that the Gowanus Canal has germs in it!
As a native of Brooklyn (although I don't live there now) I'm still trying to wrap my head around how someone...anyone could ever possibly want to navigate that waterway in a small non-powered boat.
I mean, are these people bonkers or something? Do they not know how much industrial effluent (among other things, as pointed out) has hit that small corridor of water?
I feel ill just thinking about it.
Fucking interloper weirdos.
"A colonizing lifeform"? Does this sound like a B movie come to life to anyone else?