Police & Fire
Firefighters dousing the last smokey pockets of Sunday’s brush fire. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The biggest New York City brush fire in more than half a decade ripped through Plumb Beach and the Marine Park Salt Marsh Sunday — forcing authorities to close part of the Belt Parkway for
Police & Fire
Firefighters emerging from Marine Park after Monday’s brush fire. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Scores of firefighters spent almost two hours battling a raging brush fire in the southern edge of Marine Park’s salt marsh Monday night. Lieutenant Dave Ostrowski, a member of the Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire
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When moderators of “The History of Fort Tilden, Floyd Bennett Field, and Marine Park” Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/forttilden/photos/a.10151532533098554.1073741826.35181943553/10152333719133554/?type=1&stream_ref=10] posted this photo a few weeks ago, it set me off on a long search of old
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Investigators have identified the lifeless body of a man pulled from the Marine Park salt marsh on Friday, and they don’t suspect any criminality was involved. Alex Bender, 45, was pulled from the waters behind the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center, at Avenue U and East 33rd Street,
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Photo by Robert FernandezYou know those cool pianos that have been popping up all over the city? Well, the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center is playing host to one of only two pianos in Southern Brooklyn. The Pop-Up Piano Project [http://pianos.singforhope.org/] is organized by Sing for