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NYC Urban Ecosystem Toolbox: Gowanus Canal

NYPL books, atlases, maps, and online content.

Useful Catalog Subject Headings

Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.)

Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions

Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.) -- History

Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.) -- Maps

Collection Highlights: Books and Atlases

Eco-Gowanus : urban remediation by design by Richard Plunz and Patricia Culligan
Gowanus : Brooklyn's curious canal by Joseph Alexiou
Publication Date: 2015
Gowanus waters by Steven Hirsch
Publication Date: 2016
An investigation of the sanitary condition of the Gowanus canal, Brooklyn, New York. by Charles Frederick Breitzke
Publication Date: 1908
Report of the Street Committee of the Common Council on the drainage of that part of the city lying between Court-Street and the Fifth Avenue, Warren-Street and Gowanus Bay by Daniel Richards
Publication Date: 1848

Collection Highlights: Maps and Charts

Plan for the drainage of that part of the city of Brooklyn which empties its water into Gowanus Creek & Bay by Daniel Richards
Publication Date: 1848
Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's [sic] report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn. by David Bates Douglas
Publication Date: 1847
Map showing the original high and low grounds, salt marsh and shore lines in the city of Brooklyn from original government surveys made in 1776-7 by [Board of Health?]
Publication Date: [1876]

Online Resources

Gowanus Canal maps -- NYPL Digital Collections

NY & NJ Harbor & Tributaries Focus Area Feasibility Study (HATS) -- US Army Corps of Engineers

Gowanus Canal Conservancy

Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club

US Environmental Protection Agency Gowanus Canal Superfund Site

Gowanus Canal

Gowanus Canal map

Plan for the drainage of that part of the city of Brooklyn which empties its water into Gowanus Creek & Bay (1848)