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Gerritsen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located near Marine Park and Sheepshead Bay. The area is served by Brooklyn Community Board 15.Gerritsen Beach lies on a peninsula in the southeastern part of Brooklyn, near Marine Park;
it is bounded on the north by Avenue U, to the east by Gerritsen
Avenue, to the south by the Plumb Beach Channel, and on the west by
Shell Bank Creek and Knapp Street. It is bisected, from west to east, by
the Gotham Avenue Canal. The area north of the canal, known as the "new
section" by local residents, has traditional city streets lined with
stores, brick houses, and wide sidewalks. The area south of the canal
(the "old section") is a popular spot for party boats and chartered
fishing boats to be berthed. The streets in Gerritsen Beach are in
alphabetical order (that is, Aster, Bevy, Celeste, Dictum, etc.), and
they are patrolled by officers of the New York Police Department's 61st Precinct.
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). The three-hundred-year-old mill was destroyed by fire in 1931.
Until the early twentieth century, the area remained undeveloped
except for a few squatters’ bungalows clustered at the foot of Gerritsen
Avenue. In 1920, Realty Associates, a speculative real-estate builder,
began constructing a middle-class summer resort there. The southwestern
section of Gerritsen’s meadow was soon covered by one-story bungalows
with peaked roofs and no backyards; typically, these houses were built
on tiny 40-by-45-foot lots.
The popularity of this venture spurred further growth. Some
bungalow-owners made them suitable for year-round habitation; others
built two-story houses with backyards; and, within a decade, there were
fifteen hundred houses in Gerritsen Beach.
The neighborhood has a large Irish-Catholic presence in the community. A few long-standing residents of Irish descent refer to the community as being cois farraige,
which is an Irish language phrase meaning "by the sea". The remaining
percentage of the population is predominantly of Italian and German
descent.
The Gerritsen Ballfields, consisting of three baseball
fields, two athletic fields for soccer or football, and one Little
League field, are located on the east side of Gerritsen Avenue. In 1993,
this site benefitted from a $192,000 renovation sponsored by Borough
Council Member Herbert E. Berman. The park area also supports a
"mini-airport" for motorized model airplanes; it is located at Seba
Avenue and Gerritsen Avenue.
Recreational fishing is very popular with citizens of the community.
Anglers can be found fishing along the shore at the southern end of
Gerritsen Avenue and along the adjacent shoreline of the Gerritsen
Creek-Marine Park "salt marsh".
The Gerritsen Creek estuary and the adjacent salt marsh is also a major
spawning ground for various species of marine fish. Riding of quads is
also popular, as people ride around the beach and in the trails.
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