[Photo courtesy geminicollisionworks/GL Photo Pool] This is fromm Gravesend, where we also have to assume the customer is not ony king, but also always right. Right?

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One way to tell that a proposal has problems is when opposing politicians both are fighting it. So it is with the proposed Marine Transfer Station in Gravesend Bay. “Opponents are concerned that construction of the plant requires dredging Gravesend Bay, where they say potentially hazardous pollutants deposited there during the three decades the city’s […]

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[Photo courtesy of geminicollisionworks/flickr] This is an older photo (meaning March) dropped into the GL Photo Pool, but we like it for the atmospheric quality of pre-spring fog.

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A GL reader who’s been following our Spring photo series and caught yesterday’s pic of the fallen Magnolia blossoms on Prospect Park West, sent us this lovely photo from Gravesend along with the reminder that Spring is by no means finished. We agree, except that the Magnolias come and go too fast.

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Brooklyn does have another amusement park besides Astroland and Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park. It’s not in Coney Island, although there is a big Joe Sitt development nearby. “Adventurers Family Entertainment Center has taken over the park formerly known as Nellie Bly amusement park. The group running this endeavor formerly operated Adventurer’s Inn in Queens. Thankfully […]

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The inimitable Kevin Walsh, whose Forgotten New York site is one of our favorite things anywhere, is holding his 33rd Forgotten NY tour on Sunday, April 20, in Gravesend, the neighborhood between Bensonhurst and Coney Island. He writes that it is: one of the oldest populated areas on Long Island and in the nation itself. […]

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This is a building on Avenue P in Gravesend (near Ocean Parkway) that was featured yesterday on Curbed in both its rendering and under construction state It is being developed by Sitt Asset Management (no relationship to Joe Sitt and/or Thor Equities). It is called The Venetian and condos start at $1 million and go […]

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We’ve actually lost track of the number of emails we’ve gotten saying “check out this Brooklyn house” with a photo of the house shown above. The email is circulating around and says “You have to know this part of brooklyn to appreciate this! This house, located near the intersection of Ave T and Van Sicklen […]

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The Federal government is going to try to figure out whether there is unexploded ordinance at the bottom of Gravesend Bay that might cause a very unwanted kind of boom on the Southern Brooklyn waterfront. The issue has come up in the context of plans to dredge the bay so the city can open up […]

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Gravesend Bay hides a potentially explosive secret, and it’s not the soup of toxins sitting at the bottom. “A HALF-CENTURY ago, an ammunition barge broke loose from the U.S.S. Bennington, an aircraft carrier anchored a mile offshore in Gravesend Bay. The barge drifted over to Rockaway Point, but somewhere along the way it overturned, scattering […]

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The proposed waste-transfer station in Gravesend wouldn’t be popular among some people for obvious reasons, but there is also a lot of fear that the dredging that will be done could stir up generations of toxins and other things. A sampling: lead, PCBs, mercury and toxic ash. And there’s more.–NYDN

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If you read GL, you know we dig Kevin Walsh‘s Forgotten NY. The site is full of fascinating nuggets of information, like his FNY webpage on the corner of Brooklyn known as White Sands. If you know the part of Brooklyn between Gravesend and Coney Island, you might know it as the site of a […]

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So, who would spend millions of dollars on a park on Gravesend Bay while opening a trash transfer station nearby? New York City. At issue is the proposed new Dreier-Offerman Park. We’ll let the Bay News pick up the narrative: The city is spending millions to renovate a Brooklyn park – and open a trash […]

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