Bergen Beach, Brooklyn
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Bergen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 18.
What is now Bergen Beach was an island off the coast of Canarsie that was connected to the mainland in the early 1900s using landfill.[1]
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- ^ In a Brooklyn Boom, a Patchwork of Housing, The New York Times by Andy Newman, February 15, 2004