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Brooklyn Skyport operated until at least 1947. [83] By 1950, the site was apparently being used as an aviation school. [84] Mill Basin Inlet contains a navigable channel allowing access to the area's multiple marinas. The inlet's eastern branch was dredged in the 1930s, and the western branch was widened. [5]: 73
Marsha P. Johnson State Park (formerly and also known as East River State Park) is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) state park [2] in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. The park stretches along the East River near North 7th, 8th, and 9th Streets, with views of the Williamsburg Bridge and Midtown Manhattan .
Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill (/ v æ n ˈ w aɪ k / van WYKE) is a historic tide mill located at Lloyd Harbor in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1793 and is a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, gable-roofed, timber-framed rectangular building little altered since the early 19th century. The property also includes the earthen mill dam with sluice ...
Marine Park is a public park located on Jamaica Bay in the neighborhood of Marine Park in Brooklyn, New York. Its 798 acres (3.2 km 2 ) surround the westernmost inlet of the bay. Most of the land for Marine Park was donated to New York City to be turned into public park land by the Whitney family in 1920 and by Frederic B. Pratt and Alfred ...
Bergen Beach is a residential neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City.It is located on a peninsula abutting Jamaica Bay in the southeastern portion of the borough, and is bordered by Mill Basin and the neighborhood of the same name to the south and west; the neighborhood of Flatlands to the northwest; Paerdegat Basin and the neighborhood of Canarsie to the northeast; and Jamaica ...
Borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Atlantic Ave., Court and Fulton Sts. and the East River 40°41′48″N 73°59′48″W / 40.6967°N 73.9967°W / 40.6967; -73.9967 ( Brooklyn Heights Historic
The Gerritsen Creek tidal mill in the 19th century. Gerritsen Creek is a short watercourse in Brooklyn, New York City, that empties into Jamaica Bay. [1] [2] The creek has been described as one of the "fingers" that formed the original shoreline of Jamaica Bay. [3] The creek lies just beyond the maximum extent of the Wisconsin Glacier. [4]
District 46 covers a series of neighborhoods in southeastern Brooklyn along Jamaica Bay, including Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Gerritsen Beach, Georgetown, and parts of Marine Park, Flatlands, and Sheepshead Bay. [4] Marine Park – the park, not the neighborhood – is also located within the district, as is Floyd Bennett Field.