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The area around the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, as we wrote this morning, is home to painters and prostitutes, auto mechanics and ornithologists. When the canal was designated a Superfund site Tuesday, we asked readers to share their visions of the canal, in photograph, painting or other medium.

We received nearly 200 submissions (thanks in part to bush-beating help from our friends at the Hall of the Gowanus), showing the canal at dusk, the oil patches that glide on the water’s surface, the industries living and dead line its banks, and the characters that frequent its bridges and, bravely, its waters. Thank you, everyone.