Victoria M. Walker and Katherine Marks

The Gowanus Canal still smells of sulfur on hot days, and in some places the water can take on a sickly, grayish hue. But that isn’t stopping a wave of developers from erecting glossy new apartment buildings along the notorious Brooklyn waterway.Throughout Gowanus, residential buildings have risen since the start of the pandemic. There’s a

In the world of New York City real estate, it was a given that Zoe Elghanayan would step into the family business.Her father and two of his brothers started a real estate company, Rockrose, with $100,000 from their father in 1970. In 2009, the business split into two, with her father and one of her