{"id":1298,"date":"2006-07-17T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/life_imitates_the_jaundiced_eye_of_urban_outfitters_designers.html"},"modified":"2006-07-17T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T17:43:48","slug":"life_imitates_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/life_imitates_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Life Imitates The Jaundiced Eye Of Urban Outfitters Designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Gowanus Canal Conservancy&#8221; sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/saving_the_gowanus_regionalnews_rich_calder.htm\">an excellent idea for an ironic T-shirt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One smells like fresh-cut grass and the other like an open sewer, but now Central Park, that breathtaking urban oasis, and the long-polluted Gowanus Canal have something in common &#8212; their own conservancies.<\/p>\n<p>Activists in southwest Brooklyn recently announced the creation of the Gowanus Canal Conservancy in hopes of ensuring a brighter future for an industrial waterway once dubbed Lavender Lake &#8212; for its chemically altered hue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody agrees the canal has to be cleaned,&#8221; said Thomas Chardavoyne, head of the nonprofit Gowanus Canal Community Development Corp., which formed the conservancy. The group will raise money and seek volunteers to convert the canal &#8212; which opened in 1866 and was once hailed as one of the world&#8217;s most important waterways &#8212; for dual recreational and industrial use.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Gowanus Canal Conservancy&#8221; sounds like an excellent idea for an ironic T-shirt: One smells like fresh-cut grass and the other like an open sewer, but now Central Park, that breathtaking urban oasis, and the long-polluted Gowanus Canal have something in common &#8212; their own conservancies. Activists in southwest Brooklyn recently announced the creation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}