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To the east of Gravesend is Homecrest and Sheepshead Bay, to the northeast Midwood, to the northwest Bensonhurst, and to the west Bath Beach. To the south, across Coney Island Creek, lies the neighborhood of Coney Island, and across Shore Parkway lies Brighton Beach .
About 1820, the only road, a dirt one, extending southward almost to the shore, was the Coney Island Road, now Coney Island Avenue, at Brighton Beach. Another dirt road then, the Gravesend Road, now McDonald Avenue, reached south only as far as the town of Gravesend, about two miles from the beach in West Brighton.
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Jun 20, 2021 · Coney Island, Coney Island Creek, Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach are among the location markers. Originally planned to debut in conjunction with the Fall 2021 release of data from the 2020 Census, we are offering a preview of the map this June.
The Brooklyn Historical Society ephemera collection (ARC.272) includes folders with articles on Coney Island (1923-1998), Brighton Beach (1911-1997), Manhattan Beach (1996), Seagate (1950s-1997), and Gravesend (1943-1997). The Center for Brooklyn History has an extensive collection of Coney Island photographic images, many of which are ...
Jul 23, 2020 · Francis promptly started a business fishing for porpoises off his hard-won piece of coast in Gravesend Bay. As noted beneath its title, the first iteration of the Map of the western part of the Township of Gravesend was drawn in the 1788, just as The Neck of Land in Dispute once again became a bone of contention. This time the quarrel belonged ...
Gravesend Town encompassed 7,000 acres (28 km²) in southern Kings County, including the entire island of Coney Island, which was originally the town’s common lands on the Atlantic Ocean, divided up, as was the town itself, into 41 parcels for the original patentees.
Citation The village of Gravesend as it was in 1870: compiled from old and musty records, maps and surveys: done by Catherine and E. Theodore Nelson in 1943; [ca. 1943], Map Collection, B P-1870 (1943)b.Fl c.2;B P-1870 (1943)b.Fl; Brooklyn Historical Society.
