Annette Fisher Sea Gate Brooklyn NY Makes Progress from Superstorm Sandy Damages by Harold Egeln, Jr. Historic for being the city’s first private gated-community and home to the famous Coney Island Lighthouse, Sea Gate, with about 5,000 middle class residents in one and two family homes, is recovering in steps after super Hurricane Sandy damaged or destroyed … Read more
‘Old Bay Ridge & Ovington Village’ Book Tells of Vibrant Community’s Residential and Business Dynamic Rise By Harold Egeln How Bay Ridge rose from a rural land of farms and forest to urban fame and fortune to become a fertile Brooklyn engine that drives this dynamic and thriving community of businesses and residents is … Read more
‘Jamaica Bay Advocates’ Effort Aims at ‘One Unified Voice’ for Jamaica Bay Gateway National Park By Harold Egeln The huge Jamaica Bay Gateway National Park Recreation Area, encompassing over 9,155 acres mostly in Queens and also in Marine Park in Brooklyn, has seven million visitors annually, and lots of friends and fans within and outside … Read more
Coney Island Beautification & Mermaid Ave. Greenway Projects in Spring Swing By Harold Egeln The Mermaid Avenue Greenway is blooming and the Coney Island Beautification Project, Inc., CIBP, is making that, and much more, happen, thanks to work of volunteers, children and adults alike working hand in hand with their green thumbs up in action. … Read more
Disappearing Old Dutch Farmhouses and Brooklyn’s Housing Boom by HAROLD EGELN Once farmhouses built by Dutch colonial settlers and their descendents dotted the flatlands of southern Brooklyn when their fortunes thrived with their farms until the housing boom in the 1920’s forever changed the landscape, putting chickens out and real estate in business. “In the … Read more