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Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn
Gerritsen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Sheepshead Bay to the west and Marine Park to the east. The area is served by Brooklyn Community Board 15. The population of the neighborhood is 4,797 as of the 2020 U.S. census. History The neighborhood is named for Wolphert Gerretse, a Dutch settler, who, in the early seventeenth century, built a house and mill on Gerritsen Creek, which is now part of the nearby Marine Park neighborhood.Cohen, Joyce"If You're Thinking of Living In/Gerritsen Beach; Secluded Peninsula in South Brooklyn" ''The New York Times'', March 3, 2002. Accessed November 11, 2007. "The area, named for Wolfert Gerritsen, a 17th-century settler, was mostly marshland until around 1920, when a company called Realty Associates began building summer homes." The three-hundred-year-old mill was destroyed by fire in 1931. The famous Whitney family owned property by the mill and built a mansion. The Mansion had horse stabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenue U
Avenue U is a commercial street located in Brooklyn, New York, United States. This avenue is a main thoroughfare throughout its length. Avenue U begins at Stillwell Avenue in Gravesend and ends at Bergen Avenue in Bergen Beach, while serving the other Brooklyn neighborhoods of Gravesend, Homecrest, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, and Mill Basin along its route. __TOC__ Little Hong Kong/Guangdong Avenue U in Homecrest now supports southern Brooklyn's second Chinatown (唐人街, U大道), as evidenced by the rapidly growing number of Chinese food markets, bakeries, restaurants, beauty and nail salons, and computer and consumer electronics dealers between Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Since 2004, the train on the BMT Brighton Line goes to Canal Street in the Manhattan Chinatown (紐約華埠) to Brooklyn's Avenue U Chinatown directly. A third Chinatown has subsequently emerged in southern Brooklyn, in Bensonhurst (唐人街, 本森社区), served by the . This Chinato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Constellation (CV-64)
USS ''Constellation'' (CV-64), a supercarrier, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the "new constellation of stars" on the flag of the United States. One of the fastest ships in the Navy, as proven by her victory during a battlegroup race held in 1985, she was nicknamed ''"Connie"'' by her crew and officially as "America's Flagship". The contract to build ''Constellation'' was awarded to the New York Naval Shipyard on 1 July 1956, and her keel was laid down 14 September 1957 at the New York Navy Yard. She was christened and ship naming and launching, launched 8 October 1960, sponsored by Mary Herter (wife of Secretary of State Christian Herter). ''Constellation'' was delivered to the Navy 1 October 1961, and Ship commissioning, commissioned on 27 October 1961, with Captain T. J. Walker in command. At that time, she had cost about US$264.5 million. ''Constellation'' was the last CATOBAR, conventional U.S. aircraft carrier (as of January 2021) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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