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GERRITSEN BEACHAccording to this site, all houses in the 5 boroughs were photographed in 1939-41 for tax purposes. You can get the photos for $$$: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/serdir/html/xdoris02.html
A link about the GB Vollies.
Borough President Howard Golden has a link to GB
Memories.
1010 President Street's Neighborhoods section describes
Marine Park and Gerritsen Creek in 1939:
From Driving Tigers Magazine, stories with Gerritsen Beach as a backdrop:
Some photos of GB today: http://boardwalk.50g.com/3-brooklyn/index.html WEB SITES OF OTHER GERRITSEN BEACHERSJohn Parker: Contains his bio and information about his music work: http://hometown.aol.com/parker1028.
Fantastic photos of Gerritsen Beaches waterways
taken by Paul Matinka and set up by Michael Taylor:
and of folks at a 2002 GB awards ceremony: http://neweraphoto.com/gbawards2002.htm
Tom Devine: http://www.2devine.com/
Rosemarie Burtchell: http://www.lilitaly.homestead.com/welcome.html LOCAL SCHOols and ChurchesSt. James Lutheran Church; another St James Site
Dennis Jensen's site with additional Resurrection's graduation class
photos:
http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/djensen/gbrs.htm James Madison High School Page: http://brooklynhighschools.org/schools/madison.html
James Madison Alumni Guestbook
Sheepshead Bay High School Page: http://brooklynhighschools.org/schools/sheepshead.html
Sheepshead Bay Alumni Association: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Docks/7374/ MAPS AND AERIAL VIEWSSatellite images of Gerritsen Beach.
Satellite view of Floyd Bennett Field.
A large collection of photos and
some fascinating (if slow) maps of Brooklyn at the Library of Congress's
American Memory Home Page--search on Brooklyn or Sheepshead Bay, for
example: NEW YORK, BROOKLYN, and Long IslandThe Lost Creek: www.terrain.org/essays/10/campanella.htm
St. Brendan's: http://www.goodshepherdrcc.com/jubilee/75yrs.html
A web site devoted to New York's historical resources and assets.
The Brooklyn Information page (many old maps): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Bklyn.Info.Page.html
A history of Fort Tilden, located on the Rockaway peninsula between Breezy Point and Jacob Riis Park: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/4634/
The history of Floyd Bennett Field: http://www.aero-web.org/history/fbennett/fbennett.htm http://www.mindspring.com/~jaytee/blimp.htm
http://www.geocities.com/floyd_bennett_field/index.html
Forgotten New York: http://www.forgotten-ny.com
Queens: http://www.queens.nyc.ny.us/
Brooklyn: http://brooklyn-usa.org
Staten Island: http://statenislandusa.com
New York City: http://nyc.gov
Unofficial Sheepshead Bay Home Page: http://www.brooklyncigars.com/brooklyn.html
History of Long Island:
History of the Long Island Motor Parkway: http://home.att.net/~berliner-ultrasonics/limtrpwy.html
History of the Sheepshead Bay Racetrack: http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/articles/horseracing.htm
The Brooklyn Board (a Brooklyn bulletin board): http://softech-consulting.com/brooklyn/
This looks like an "official" Brooklyn site. It mentions an archaeological dig of the mill site in its Brooklyn history section: http://www.brooklynonline.com
Dyker Heights Web Page:http://www.dykerheights.com
Featuring the dogs of Marine Park and the Gerritsen Creek salt marsh:
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