Floyd Bennett Field
8 January 2020
I spent the day yesterday wandering around Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. It was once a commercial airport, and later a Naval Air Station. Today, it's part of Gateway National Recreation Area, run by the National Park Service but not as a National Park. This means that all sorts of things are permitted, not just wilderness, but there are parts of it that are nature preserves.
Merlin falcon
Yellow-rumped warbler
Northern mockingbird
Herring gull
Ring-billed gull
Red-breasted merganser
Brant geese
Some parts are not as nice. The next few pictures were taken on (I kid you not) “Glass Bottle Beach”, off of Dead Horse Bay. Once upon a time, there was a rendering plant around here; sometimes, horse carcasses being barged to the island would fall off. Guess where they washed up? And the former island is no longer an island; landfill was used to connect it to the rest of Brooklyn. That may be where some of the construction debris, car parts, and bottles came from. It's certainly not in a convenient location for illegal dumping…
