Today photographer Nathan Kensinger posted some photos from his Gowanus Canal collection, and what's creepier than that? The now Superfunded strip of water is the perfect thing to look at for a gross-out factor on your Halloween. Join us for a journey through what Kensinger calls "the Toxic Playground." But beware! He forewarns that "the darker side of the canal's lawlessness includes more than a century of criminal dumping... the pollution was so bad that the canal was prone to spontaneous combustion. It was also a reputed Mafia dumping ground, with neighbors finding dead bodies in the water, sometimes tied to chairs."
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