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Gerritsen Creek is a freshwater creek that’s partly located underground. A portion of it that’s north of Avenue U was turned into an underground storm drain around 1920, ...
Gerritsen Creek, located within the 798-acre Marine Park, is one of those places. While it is only a sliver of what it once was, freshwater still flows to the inlet, nurturing marshlands that support ...
The city’s plan to drain rain runoff from the Belt Parkway into Gerritsen Creek has neighbors fearing for their waterway. The storm water collection system now under construction will dump the parkway ...
The deadly collision “between two water vessels” happened shortly after 11:50 a.m. near Plumb Beach, in the Gerritsen Creek waters, police said.
Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn: This water-bound, blue-collar southern enclave is defined by its unique combination of modest, ... a Dutch settler who built his home and mill along Gerritsen Creek — which, ...
Thus, early in December, ACE will begin the year-long, $8 million Gerritsen Creek Marine Park ecosystem restoration project, being done in partnership with the city’s Department of Parks ...
Irate folks living in Gerritsen Beach are gearing up to fight what they fear is a growing effort to ban personal watercraft and motorboats in Gerritsen Creek. More than 100 angry boating enthusiast… ...
A stretch of road along Gerritsen Creek in Marine Park is "a tragedy waiting to happen," according to one local official, and no city agency is willing to fix it. For about 50 feet along Allen Ave ...
The creek seen from Garland Court Start in the part of the neighborhood that’s north of that bisecting waterway, the Shell Bank Canal. Take the bus to the stop on the corner of Gerritsen and ...
BROOKLYN — A group of Girl Scouts cleaning the shoreline at Gerritsen Creek recently made a horrifying discovery that may shed light on what happened to the 20 missing cats from Industry City in ...
Taylor, now 27, was raised in Gerritsen Beach, the neighborhood adjoining Marine Park. His home was on the canal of Shell Bank Creek, which spills into Plum Beac Skip to content ...