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Parks Clears Weeds for More Trees Parks Employee with a Chainsaw RUN!!!!!!!! You may have noticed a difference in the weeds across from the library. The Parks Department came in today to clear out non-native invasive trees for a scheduled planting in October. They plan on planting 2000 native trees and 500 native shrubs. They have been spraying the phragmities and will continue to to keep them at bay.
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2000 sounds like a lot of trees – I guess we'll breath better.
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We have had a few inquiries about the trees the parks dept. has been cutting….
Spoke with supervisor in the field yesterday, and he confirmed, they are only cutting down non-native trees, which will be replaced by trees native to the area.
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Sounds like a microcosm of Gerritsen Beach itself, you know, trying to get rid of "non-native" residents, (Russians, blacks, etc.) and replacing them with "residents" native to the area. (Irish, Italian, etc….)
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Oh if only..
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You put Italians on the wrong list.
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them – non native trees were planted there by the federal goverment during world war 2 so that all the land around floyd bennit field and fort tilden in rockaways blended in with the area and would make it harder to identify from the air
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That's baloney! Complete BS. Even 30 years ago, there were no trees. Why do people like to come up with these theories and spread them around like truth?
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Why the "no's"? It is not true! Ask people who were around here during and immediately after WWII, "the sands" as it was known then, had NO TREES. There was a barge at The Point that was used by the Navy that is still visable, and they did keep stuff there so that if Floyd Bennett was attacked, all would not be lost, but no trees were planted, that is FICTION. People, like my family, who lived in the Veterans Housing in the fields, that extended from around Channel Ave to Florence Ave. will tell you that there were no trees. Thats why it was called The Sands at the time. And if you know anything about trees, you would know that there are no 65 year old trees back there.
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There WAS however, at the turn of the century or slightly later, an Oyster House/Brothel on the beach. just around from the point, not quite opposite Mau-Mau. The pilings from the structure are still visible.
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That was a GREAT place to visit, go eat and …..
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How do you know this? It had to be later if it's true at all. At the turn of the century there was not much here. Maybe during construction of the community?
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When Plumb Island was populated and there were only a few squatters bungalos on this side, at the shore mostly, but on BOTH sides of what is now Gerrittsen Ave. The construction of the community by Gerrittsen Associates was in the 1920's. Before that it WAS very different. You can see pilings that were from those long ago structures, such as the pier that jutted out between the Ave and the barge at the point. Don't forget that back then the Creek ran all the way past what is now Fillmore Ave, I think almost to Kings Hwy. and there was a bridge over it on Ave U. The Brooklyn Jockey Club, AKA The Gravesend Race Track, covered 60 acres. It went from around what is now McDonald Ave to Ocean Pkwy and from Kings Hwy to Ave U. It was open from the 1880's to 1910. My Grandfather worked at the track from the time he was a small boy.
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I believe that it was popular with the racetrack crowd.
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