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The Gowanus Souvenir Shop sells quirky goods, such as bottles labeled with toxins found in the noxious canal. Photo by Colin Mixson
WASTING AWAY
Gowanus Souvenir Shop to close storefront before month’s end
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
The Gowanus Souvenir
Shop is set to close its doors
on Jan. 31, when the shop’s
owner said she will focus
on selling her toxic-wastethemed
novelties online and
in select stores.
“It’s always been more of
a passion project than a business
scheme,” said Ute Zimmermann.
“It’s a big time
burden to have a storefront
and to keep it stocked. Now
we can focus on doing more
fun things.”
The Union Street store
between Bond and Nevins
streets will remain open
until the end of the month,
when the business it shares
the space with, the gift shop
From Here to Sunday, will
take it over and continue
selling some of the Zimmermann’s
goods, such as
T-shirts and postcards, she
said.
“They’re going to take
over my half of the space and
will be carrying a lot of Gowanus
products,” Zimmermann
said. “We hope people
will still come back to the old
place.”
They will also continue to
sell their goods at the Brooklyn
Museum’s gift shop and at
Artist and Craftsman on Sec-
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Whoa
there!
Slower limits take
effect on Third
and Hamilton
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Slow down, Brooklyn!
Lower speed limits on two
of Brooklyn’s most dangerous
streets kicked in Tuesday,
with the maximum legal
speed dropping from 30 to 25
miles-per-hour along Third
and Hamilton avenues, officials
said.
The Department of Transportation
announced on
Twitter that it instituted the
new limits along a 2.3 mile
stretch of Third Avenue, between
Prospect Avenue and
62nd Street, where cars fatally
struck six people in
2019, compared with two people
throughout all of 2018.
The agency also made the
change to a 1.9 mile span of
Hamilton Avenue, between
Luquer and 18th streets, and
the tweaks will calm the
roads connecting several
neighborhoods, the department’s
chief said last month.
“We believe that lower-
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