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Gerritsen Beach resembles a quaint fishing village on the southern coast of Brooklyn, New York. This site is an opportunity to find out what it was like to live there. (New York Times review of the site.) FeaturesIn MemoriamGerrittsen Beach Volunteer Fire Department,
a sample chapter from a book under development tentatively titled Early Gerrittsen Beach, by Lorraine DeVoy et al. StorytellersStories told by people from Gerritsen Beach Photo GalleryRemember All the Gerritsen Beach Street Names?Neighbors(Current Gerritsen Beach .) Where did your family live? Check from A History of Gotham AvenueThe Official Site of Gerritsen Beach TodayWhere Was It? Going South Along Gerritsen AvenueIncluding some old advertisements: Ben & Jerry vs. Fran & Izzy(with recipes) Dennis Jensen's Resurrection PageGerritsen Branch of the Brooklyn Public LibraryThe Tamaqua's Web PageMap of Where We Are NowThe Brooklyn Bridge in 1902:
The Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire Department
The St. James Cadet Corps and Drum Corpsby Major Charles H. Rule, 1974 A Sad Goodbye to CharleyCharles Geary (Charley the Midget) is killed by a hit-and-run driver in 1971. Junk YardUnderworld auto graveyard in Gerritsen Beach
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A 1924 ad for Gerritsen Beach houses.
Fascinating pictures of early Gerritsen Beach in a 1925 brochure offering the stores between Devon and Everett Avenues for sale.
Remember Miss MacDavitt?
What the Indians really got paid.
Some brief historical notes. Pictures of the mill and mansion appear in the Photo Gallery.
Gerritsen Beach's most well-known historian.
Last changed: September 29, 2004
Click on the image for a larger view (courtesy Mary from the Tamaqua)
Click on the image for a larger view (courtesy Bill Thorp)
Click on the image for a larger view (Resurrection 75th Anniversary brochure)