Sports in Canarsie

Sports in Canarsie is very important to youths who reside there. Recreational activities in canarsie range from basketball to baseball and all activities are accesible from seaview park located at seaview ave. and 92nd street. I believe that more parks should be acessible to residents of canarsie due to the fact that during a period of time when the weather is high, there is often overcrowding in the park. With more parks, overcrowding would decrease and more residents would have acess to the recreational areas of canarsie.

Pictures In Canarsie

Brooklyn Public Library





Holy Family Church





Canarsie Pier

Canarsie Representatives

Dorothy Turano - district manager

Mr. Saul Needle - Chairman

Lew Fidler - City Councilman

Michael Bloomberg - Mayor

William F. Boyland, Jr. - State Assemblyman

State Senators:

John L. Sampson

Community Board Address:

Brooklyn Community Board 18
5715 Avenue H, # 1D
Brooklyn, NY 11234
Phone: 718.241.0422
Fax: 718.531.3199
Email: bkbrd18@optonline.net

Canarsie Newspaper

Canarsie Courier

What Is Canarsie?

Canarsie is a neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, United States. The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 18.[1]

Canarsie, which includes the entire 11236 postal zip code, is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin, East 108th Street and the L subway line; on the north by Linden Boulevard; on the west by a one-block section of Remsen Avenue, then Ralph Avenue and the Paerdegat Basin; and on the south by Jamaica Bay. Canarsie also neighbors East Flatbush, Mill Basin, Old Mill Basin, Georgetown, Bergen Beach, East New York and Starrett City, which is now known as Spring Creek Towers.

History Of Canarsie

"Canarsie" is a phonetic interpretation of a word in the Lenape language for "fenced land" or "fort." The Native Americans who made the infamous sale of the island of Manhattan for 60 guilders were Lenape. Europeans would often refer to the indigenous people living in an area by the local place-name, and so reference may be found in contemporary documents to "Canarsee Indians." The current neighborhood lies within the former town of Flatlands, one of the five original Dutch towns on Long Island.

Canarsie was built on swamps near Jamaica Bay. It was a fishing village through the 1800s, until pollution killed the oysters and the edible fish. In the 1920s, Italians settled in the area, later joined by Jews. Ferry service withered away after the building of the Marine Parkway Bridge. During the 1990's, increasing crime and lower quality of life drove many of Canarsie's white population to move to Staten Island, Queens, and Long Island. This phenomenon was called 'white flight' by many. Today, Canarsie's population is mostly Black with many West Indians and African-American. [2]

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