As crazy as it sounds, there is a baby whale in Brooklyn's long-polluted Gowanus Canal, at the spot where it feeds into New York harbor, map. "Sludgie" is his nickname, NY1 is reporting this morning.

WNBC has whale footage online from last night, (at right.)

The whale, a juvenile minke whale about 15 long, appears to be in good health and shows no signs of distress, a rescue program director for the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation told the Associated Press.