There is an urban legend that the canal served as a dumping ground for the Mafia.
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Terry Jamison is a painter and had collaborated in the 1980s with artists Frank Shifreen and Mark Oberg to sponsor and exhibited paintings and sculptures of New York's emerging talents.The exhibition was called The Gowanus Canal Monumental Show.