Sea Gate, Brooklyn

Sea Gate which is in the confines of Community District 10 is patrolled by the 60th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 2951 West 8th Street in Brooklyn, NY.

[citation needed] In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated the neighborhood, which was inundated by ocean water and battered by strong winds.

Located on Beach 47th Street in Sea Gate is the 75-foot-tall (23 m) Coney Island Light, is a lighthouse built in 1890, before the area was populated.

[1] The chapel in Sea Gate, once used for services and built in 1901, is a historical building now used for social events, yoga classes, and is a polling site at election times.

[6] In 2013, Christopher Simmons, a Black officer with the Sea Gate Public Safety Department[7] filed a federal discrimination and retaliation lawsuit alleging that the Sea Gate Association's president called him a "schwartze" (a Yiddish racial slur for "Black") and that he was passed over for promotion, demoted, and then fired.

[13] In addition to city and state taxes, residents also pay dues and charges to the Sea Gate Association, which have averaged $3,000 per year.

Tensions around race and class exist between Sea Gate and the rest of Coney Island which has a significantly larger Black and Latino population.

Both Sea Gate homeowners association and their public safety department have been frequently accused of racism and have been the subject of multiple federal lawsuits.