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Regardless of the pace and direction that Gowanus Green will take in the coming years, the up-and-coming neighborhood progress does not wait for laggards. In the wake of a recent rezoning at adjacent Park Slope, numerous large residential projects are already complete or well in progress, particularly on and around Fourth Avenue. ODA Architecture’s
251 First was recently finished at the corner of Fourth Avenue and First Street, two blocks away from the canal’s Fourth Street Basin. A few blocks north, the 12-story, arch-windowed
Parlour nears completion at 243 Fourth Avenue.
LUNA, another arch-windowed condo, also nears completion further south, close to the brand new, ten-story
Bentyn condo at 488 Fourth Avenue. In the meantime, the city is
planning to expand the bike lanes along Fourth Avenue. Given the influx of new residents, the park and school proposed as part of Gowanus Green can’t come a moment too soon, while the shops and apartment buildings will add vitality to the canal’s west bank.
