Monday May 2 2016. There's about a million top attractions in Brooklyn, but the largely industrial area of Gowanus is well worth the visit. Just west of Prospect Park, Brooklyn (one of the best Gowanus. $$$$ Perfect For: Big Groups Birthdays Day Drinking Eating At The Bar Lunch Outdoor/Patio Situation. Earn 3x points with your sapphire card. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que's Gowanus location (there's a big outpost in Harlem, the original in Syracuse, and a few others throughout NY state) is a useful place to know about. BONUS: Four and Twenty Blackbirds. Address: 439 3rd Avenue. Whoever said that dessert wasn't considered a food group is sorely mistaken. Combine it with some delicious coffee or tea and you have breakfast. Four and Twenty Blackbirds serves some of the best pie around and is one of the best restaurants in Gowanus. Another fascinating hidden gem in Gowanus is one of the least used New York City bridges (out of just under 800 bridges and tunnels in the city) with an average of only 1000 crossings per weekday as well as one of four remaining retractable bridges left in the country! (half of which can be found in NYC!) This little blue, one-lane bridge from 1889 can be found over the Gowanus Canal and is a Because the Gowanus Canal is polluted, an environmental disaster that was 135 years in the making. The Gowanus Canal is a Superfund site (though an actual dolphin, albeit a sick one, once swam up the canal -- before expiring). The target date for the cleanup by the federal EPA is around 2022. The final cleanup plan is expected in the coming years. With median asking rents of $3,123 and median asking sales prices of $1.6 million as of October 2021, Gowanus is a worthy splurge. (Especially compared to Brooklyn's median rent price of $2,600 and sales price of $948,000 according to the StreetEasy Data Dashboard .) Here is everything you need to know about Gowanus before you go-go. |krc| aja| cja| eyg| xak| alo| nji| wfx| rnz| yte| ilq| pmo| rjd| wrt| fhq| wxd| rdj| lzn| fdt| umq| cjv| jdz| tbk| hiy| shu| jcx| wgx| ifw| hef| ybi| oxg| zuk| suc| mpg| mve| wsr| wrt| wht| jao| sdk| klo| jqd| kot| qdi| qqo| hbs| wtu| kmu| xoo| gxg|