Gerritsen Beach
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 area is served by Brooklyn Community Board 15.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
- Also known as: “Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mau Mau Island and Plumb Beach.
Mau Mau Island
Island
Mau Mau Island, also called White Island, is a small uninhabited island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Gerritsen Creek and Mill Creek in the Marine Park recreation area.
Plumb Beach
Park
Photo: Glenn ocean, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plumb Beach is a beach and surrounding neighborhood along the north shore of Rockaway Inlet, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is located near the neighborhoods of Sheepshead Bay and Gerritsen Beach, just off the Belt Parkway.
Kings Plaza
Shopping center
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Kings Plaza is a shopping center within the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, United States. Opened in September 1970, it is located at the southeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Avenue U, just north of Floyd Bennett Field.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach.
Sheepshead Bay
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Sheepshead Bay is a neighborhood in southern Brooklyn, New York City. It is bounded by Ocean Parkway to the west; Kings Highway to the north; Nostrand Avenue and Gerritsen Avenue to the east; and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
Manhattan Beach
Neighborhood
Photo: Multiplicitous, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Manhattan Beach is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, by Sheepshead Bay on the north, and Brighton Beach to the west.
Mill Basin
Neighborhood
Mill Basin is a residential neighborhood in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City. It is on a peninsula abutting Jamaica Bay and is bordered by Avenue U on the northwest and the Mill Basin/Mill Island Inlet on its remaining sides. Mill Basin is situated 1½ miles northeast of Gerritsen Beach.
Gerritsen Beach
- Category: locality
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.59299° or 40° 35′ 35″ northLongitude
-73.92639° or 73° 55′ 35″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87G8H3VF+5COpenStreetMap ID
node 158811998OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Gerritsen Beach” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Gerritsen Beach”
- French: “Gerritsen Beach”
- Japanese: “ジェリッツェン・ビーチ (ブルックリン)”
- Russian: “Герритсен-Бич”
- Turkish: “Gerritsen Beach”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gerritsen Beach”. Photo: Suiseiseki, CC BY-SA 3.0.