Frogg : Friends & Residents Of Greater Gowanus

05/11/2022

Time to sign up for the 2022 season of fresh local fruit and vegetables!

Green Thumb will be bagging shares for the 2022 season, thereby easing distribution contact and limiting the handling of produce.

10/29/2021

Is there hypocrisy in NYC's planning and policies addressing "climate vulnerable" areas, especially since Ida?
Hundreds, and hundreds of homes well up hill from the Gowanus Canal, on both banks, were flooded during Ida, yet NYC marches on with intentions to rezone the low lands along Gowanus for housing, land that was under 12 feet of water during Storm Sandy.
We are all still waiting on Climate impact analysis for this rezoning and an answer to the question, what will happen when flood levels make coming & going from these buildings difficult? What will be come of buildings built under the rezone when you can't get to-and-from them? Who will be responsible fro removing them from the Public Waters then?

The de Blasio administration wants Congress to fund a voluntary buyout program modeled on efforts launched after Superstorm Sandy, which hit nine years ago this week. The devastation wrought Sept. 1 by Ida has spurred calls to re-up the "managed retreat" strategy.

10/18/2021

Gowanus Rezoning, with 20,000 new units predicted, with greatly add to these numbers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/realestate/luxury/new-buildings-rise-in-flood-zones.html

10/18/2021

Flow of water towards Gowanus:
https://semspub.epa.gov/work/02/122526.pdf

09/28/2021

https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/lets-save-east-river-park1?

09/28/2021

FROGG is so very great full to Simeon for his amazing and helpful support he and HDC brought to our Gowanus community over the many years of directorship at HDC. His program, Six To Celebrate, featured and helped celebrate the important history here in our Gowanus landscape. His support of FROGG member, Linda Mariano, was essential in aiding our recordation of Gowanus History which still sits before NY SHIPO for their consideration.

https://www.archpaper.com/2021/09/simeon-bankoff-steps-down-as-executive-director-historic-districts-council/?fbclid=IwAR3F1w4n0tzJOjsvD0LuaZ3CF-aUPhp7BPtHNVIhJufGt0IhZhZYT-2lqcc

After two decades as executive director of the Historic Districts Council in New York City, Simeon Bankoff has left, triggering a search for his replacement

09/15/2021

City Planning's Envirnomental Impact Statement for the 80 block Gowanus rezoning has flawed data acording to an EPA revies, which is why the conclusions drawn from the FEIS are without standing. The EPA also asked that the EIS look at the consequenses of this huge rezoning as known climate impacts hit this area over the comming decades when people the rezoning would have 20,000 additional people living at the bottom of this coastal drainage basin.

For current posting from the community coalition group, Voice of Gowanus:

Fighting for a Just and Sustainable Gowanus

09/07/2021

08/13/2021

August 27: Not just the current Battle of Brooklyn taking place over Gowanus, but also battles remembered. Back then it was the waters of Gowanus that turned the tide of that battle. Today it looks like it may once again be the waters of the Gowanus that will be a major factor in settling the current Battle of Brooklyn...

The annual family-friendly day of demonstrations, music and re-enactments memorializing the Battle of Brooklyn returns this year with an in-person event.