Friends, when the rezoning stuff hits the fan in Canarsie, you know you are dealing with some serious stuff. Yesterday, City Planning announced plans to rezone that far off neighborhood and make some major changes to a 250 block area. The rezoning area is generally bounded Foster Avenue to the north, Fresh Creek Basin and […]

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Ever been out to Canarsie? Yeah, it’s way the hell out there. And it’s one of those neighborhoods that people don’t really go out to just spend the day as a local tourist. It’s changed immensely over the years, with many saying not for the better with its fast pace growth in crime over the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Forgotten NY] For anything and everything that there is to know about Canarsie, go to the latest installment of Forgotten New York, where Kevin Walsh has outdone himself with two pages of words and photos about the Southern Brooklyn community. Here’s some history: Canarsie, which is located between Paerdegat Basin on the […]

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Okay, this vid is a little off the beaten path for us, as it concerns cooking, on the other hand, we found there was something compelling about watching “Doris Einbinder, Canarsie, Brooklyn, circa 1986” show how to make potato latkes in this old footage. Grandma Doris, here’s to your latkes.

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Yesterday Brooklyn Based ran a round up of organized open paddles and boat rides on the Brooklyn waterfront (and Prospect Park), but we ran out of room to mention anything about sailing, because it’s not something you just get out on the water and “do” — there’s all that lingo to learn (jib, keel, leeward), […]

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Do check out the yacht clubs of Brooklyn. For instance: “Let’s say you don’t know anyone with a boat, there are still some low-cost options out there for you. One is the Sebago Canoe Club located on the Paerdegat Basin in Canarsie, Brooklyn. SCC has been around for 75 years and is easily accessible to […]

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“Rat sightings have closed down six classroom trailers at a Brooklyn elementary school, with a teachers union official saying she spotted numerous rodents nosing around the temporary classrooms. Four pre-kindergarten classes, a kindergarten class and a special-education class usually meet in the trailers at P.S. 272.” The school is in Canarsie.–Metro

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Pay a visit to Canarsie, check out the photos and consider the debated etymology of Varkens Hook Road. “Varken simply means ‘pig’ or ‘hog’ in Dutch and is attributed to any domestic swine (or person resembling one). Varkensvlees means ‘pork meat’ as well. Hook, which the English adapted from the Dutch ‘hoek’ does mean corner.” […]

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