City: We'll Clean Gowanus Canal (We Swear!): City officials—trying to keep Toll Brothers...

City officials—trying to keep Toll Brothers and other developers interested in building hundreds of luxury apartments along the fabulous Gowanus Canal—has proposed an alternate plan to the E.P.A.'s Superfund designation proposal. It still involves a clean-up, with voluntary payments from polluters (heh.), federal cash, the Army and just 9½ years of effort instead of two decades of s...