Another One Sleeps with the Fishes in the Gowanus Canal...

No, no, that's not the title of Jonathan Lethem's next novel. It's just that sadly, our little Brooklynite who could, cannot anymore... The mink whale (previously and erroneously reported as a Baleen whale) that made its way into the Gowanus Canal met a sad end. I guess the hipsters get to stay another day. [Thanks to ace reporter smalldogarific for following this story.]

Where Brooklyn at? Seriously, which direction?

When it rains it blogs, hunh? Smalldogarific brought the following piece of information to my attention (via NY1, home of the eyebrows). For years, Brooklyn has opened her arms to the the dispossessed, to the recently arrived. Hasidim have given way to hipsters, and now hipsters must give way to endangered whales:

Whale Spotted In Gowanus Canal
A baby Baleen whale was spotted in the Gowanus Canal Tuesday.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the whale, which was spotted off the piers near 22 Street, is very young, possibly pre-juvenile.

Baleen whales are an endangered species.

Experts from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation were sent to assess its condition and help rescue the whale.

It is unknown how or why the whale traveled into the Gowanus Canal.