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Apr 25, 2011 · A Brief History of Coney Island Creek. In the 17th century, Coney Island Creek was a small waterway that ended near what is now Cropsey Avenue. It was then dug into a straight that connected Sheepshead Bay to Gravesend Bay, making Coney Island an actual island. Because it was unnavigable, there was talk of widening it into a canal for shipping ...
Early Coney Island History: 'Conyne Eylandt' and Gravesend (1600-1860) The story of Coney Island begins in the early 1600s, when the Dutch founded a small settlement named New Amsterdam in lower Manhattan. New Amsterdam eventually would become present-day New York City. At the time, this settlement was one of several that comprised the Dutch ...
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When the town was first laid out, almost half were salt marsh wetlands and sandhill dunes along the shore of Gravesend Bay. As of 2007, Gravesend had a population of 181,651. HISTORY. The first known European to set foot in the area that would become Gravesend was Henry Hudson, whose ship, the Half Moon, landed on Coney Island in the fall of 1609.
Growing up in Coney Island and Gravesend in the 1990s and 2000s. Eric Sanchez was born in 1987 when his family lived in Coney Island. He later moved to 2121 Shore Parkway, a building in Gravesend which had a great view of Coney Island, Cropsey and Bay 49th, and Neptune Avenue and West 15th Street. As a teen, ... Content type: Oral History Item.
Gravesend: view of Coney Island Creek, looking northwest from Harway Avenue Bridge (W. 17th Street), Coney Island, November 1924. Collection Title . Eugene L. Armbruster photograph collection, 1894-1939. Date . 1924. Physical Description . Prints: 5 x 7" Identifier . nyhs_PR081_b-07_f-06_825-01. Subject geographic name
Memories of being one of the first families to move into Gravesend Houses in 1954 and growing up there. Born in Brooklyn in 1949, Barbara Unterman Jones remembers moving to Coney Island's Gravesend Houses with her family in 1954 when the public housing project was brand new. Her first memory is of the road still being under construction and ...
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 ...
