Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn

Gerritsen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Sheepshead Bay to the west and Marine Park to the east.

The Mansion was knocked down in 1936 for the Marine Park Building Developments but the carriage house was still left standing.

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 to one-story bungalows with peaked roofs and no backyards.

Almost all homes in the Gerritsen Beach area were damaged and/or affected by seawater on October 29, 2012, from Hurricane Sandy due to its peninsula characteristics.

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 and chartered fishing boat berths.

The Gerritsen Creek estuary and the adjacent salt marsh is also a major spawning ground for various species of marine fish.

"the Vollies"), the last remaining volunteer fire department in Brooklyn, was organized in 1922 when Gerritsen Beach was a small summer-resort community.

Before the city added water mains under Gerritsen Beach streets, the Volunteers had to handle fires at least three times a week.