Gowanus Crossing: A Brooklyn Boyhood
By Vincent Coppola
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
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Brooklyn is a mythic place and the Gowanus Canal, pestilent and fertile, is its Nile. “Yous stay outta that f*cking water,” Uncle Honey used to warn us.
We never listened.
Mid-century Gowanus: Decades before the Whole Foods went up and the lofts were refurbished, a raucous, unruly, proudly Italian American enclave clings to the banks of the noxious canal. The Mafia and the Catholic Church-two centuries-old, rigidly hierarchical institutions defined by oppressive codes of silence-dominate the ...






















