From Cracking Coal to Cracked Wheat Salad: Whole Foods on the Gowanus Canal.

Green Light for Whole Foods Market 201_?

1924          THIRD STREET AND THIRD AVENUE's INDUSTRIAL PAST
The Gowanus Canal extended outward to Fourth Avenue.  You can click on the photos to enlarge.  Notice the coal yards and baseball stadium across the street.

By 1951, a block long section of the Canal had been filled in.

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That little brown cube positioned on the corner of Third Street and Third Avenue  is the landmarked New York and Long Island Coignet  Stone Company building.

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