Linda Mariano quoted in this NY Times Article "Can Gowanus Survive Its Renaissance?"

Brooklyn's very own Linda Mariano, a founder of Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus is quoted in this NY Times article on Gowanus.

"Can Gowanus Survive Its Renaissance?"
by Andy Newman
NY Times

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Stroller traffic on Carroll Street. Credit Stephen Speranza for The New York Times

Those opposed to high-end housing along the canal remain unimpressed. Among them is Linda Mariano, a founder of Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus. She was recently persuaded to take a stroll along the waterfront walkway, which is open to the public though largely hidden from the street.

“This is not Gowanus,” said Ms. Mariano, a retired art teacher who bought a fixer-upper on President Street in 1974. She brushed past a beach rose in a planter. “This is not the beach,” she said. “We should be retreating from the water, not creating an artificial utopia.”

The neighborhood should refit old industrial buildings for small manufacturers and artists, Ms. Mariano said. “What Gowanus had — and still has to a certain extent — is what America used to be,” she said. “We made things. We had jobs here, and people could live near where they worked.”