Slime Smackdown: Roebling Oil Field vs. Gowanus Canal

Not to overkill the Roebling Oil Field today, but if the average picture is worth a thousand words, this one is worth at least several hundred, give or take. The top picture is the sheen on pooled water at the west end of the development site at N. 11th and Roebling in Williamsburg that we call the Roebling Oil Field. It was taken yesterday. (We don't know where it's coming from--it could be leakage from construction equipment or it could be coming from the ground, but there's quite a bit of it and you can still smell oil on that part of the site.) The bottom photo is the sheen on the Gowanus Canal. It was taken on Saturday. Gross.

Just to provide context for the photo, here's a broader view of the west side of the McCarren Park Mews condo site, right below. What you are seeing is like a bottle of spring water compared to what the east end of the site looked like in the fall.