Bergen Beach, Brooklyn
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Bergen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 18.[1]
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.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Brooklyn Community Boards, New York City. Accessed December 31, 2007.
- ^ In a Brooklyn Boom, a Patchwork of Housing, The New York Times by Andy Newman, February 15, 2004