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Dispatches from open studios events across town and the Tompkins Square Dog Halloween Parade. I generally spend a decent amount of time in Gowanus, but weaving through the neighborhood’s streets and buildings for Open Studios on Saturday really demonstrated how the stretch of water has shed its sardonic designation of “Lavender Lake” and turned into a bizarro landscape of glimmering apartment buildings. The canalside Whole Foods is one thing, but the “luxury” high-rises boasting an “iconic” view of the waterfront in its funky fluorescence are still a head-scratcher for me. Now, I’m neither a chemist, an architect, nor a physician, but I’m willing to bet that everyone probably would have benefitted from waiting for water remediation and sewage overflow prevention efforts to be completed instead of developers speedrunning the area’s sublimation from a Superfund site with a petering industrial profile to a bunch of towers offering studio apartments starting at $3,200/month. Unless there’s a large band of civilians seeking front-row seats to Gowanus’s next poonami … Because they’re literally installing permanent picnic tables and reclining deck chairs along the banks of the canal.

Santa Paws, Vincent van Doge, and the papal Pup Leo were among this year’s fierce competition. A corgi poses in a Gary the snail costume, as their owner sports a SpongeBob assemblage. (all photos Anna Lee/Hyperallergic)

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