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    VETERANS AVENUE, BERGEN BEACH

    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2023 7 comments

    BERGEN Beach is a southeast Brooklyn former island community found east of Marine Park. In the mid-1600s after the Canarsee Indians left, the island was owned by Dutchman Hans Hansen…

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    NEVER BUILT IN BERGEN BEACH

    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2021 1 comment

    I haven’t made many forays into Bergen Beach, and its rather newer partner, Georgetown, at least not lately. When I lived in Bay Ridge it was fairly easy to reach…

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    SHEEPSHEAD BAY TO BERGEN BEACH, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2017 19 comments

    Continued from Part 1 In the 1970s, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, and Bergen Beach had not become fully homogenized into the Brooklyn “beautiful mosaic” and were still rough around the…

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    BERGEN BEACH & GEORGETOWN, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2008 1 comment

    “Bergen” comes up frequently on the Brooklyn map — there’s Bergen Street, which runs from Cobble Hill to Brownsville, Bergen Beach playground, Bergen Triangle and Bergen Avenue. The neighborhood, which…

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