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I was heading to a birthday thing the other Saturday and found myself along Kings Highway, Brooklyn’s Mother Road, a colonial-era route built partially atop a Native American trail that once stretched from the ferry landing at today’s Old Fulton Street, running southeast then southwest to where Fort Hamilton is today. The name “Kings Highway” became appended [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: East Flatbush Marine Park Wyckoff
ALERT! The world scientific community will be forced to acknowledge the existence of a “living fossil” as a creature thought to be extinct for 80 million years recently appeared in a swamp in southern Brooklyn. The plesiosaurs were a group of large marine reptiles that possessed extremely long necks and tails. They roamed the open surface waters [...]
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Once one of New York City’s only two commercial airports (along with North Beach/LaGuardia Airport) Floyd Bennett Field now borders the southern stretch of Flatbush Avenue between Marine Park Golf Course and Jamaica Bay. Though it’s a National Historic Site, it’s little visited these days, except when flea markets are held there, and much of [...]
Categorized in: You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Brooklyn Marine Park
