Beautiful sunny TRUE 2 bedroom apartment located in the heart of Gowanus! Walk into a spacious living room that can accommodate any size couch, coffee table, TV stand and has more space for an office desk as well! Bedrooms are extra-large and can fit any type of bed, dresser, night stand and also have a large closet. Kitchen was recently renovated with granite counter tops, lots of cabinets and stainless steel appliances such as dishwasher, microwave, refrigerator and stove. Kitchen is separate from the living room and also can fit a dining table with 4 chairs! The bathroom is completely gut renovated with floor to ceiling tiles, mirror medicine cabinet and also has storage underneath the sink! This one of a kind apartment also has high ceilings and hardwood floors throughout!
Once a bustling place of industry, Gowanus has become a haven for artists of all kinds. Surrounded by Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook, Gowanus is an eclectic mix of trendy, posh, and grunge that's hard to find anywhere else in the city.
Gowanus, both the neighborhood and the canal that cuts through it, gets its name from a Carnarsee leader named Gauwane. Gowanus was the first settlement of the Dutch colony of New Netherlands, and was used as farmland as well as gristmills powered by the canal.
By the mid 1800's, Gowanus was a place of industry, sporting many factories and shipping services. This heavily polluted the canal, and gave Gowanus a less than desirable reputation for decades. After World War II, many of the factories and businesses left the neighborhood, and Gowanus fell into ruin.
Around the 1980's, the EPA allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up the canal, which has gone rather well. This clean up project madeā¦
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