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| horse stable borders canal |
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| improbable expansive lawn |
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| improbable pool sighting |
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note moorings
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Gerritsen Beach lies between Sheepshead Bay and the Brooklyn Marine Park (Brooklyn's largest Park), home to a wetland habitat. Many houses lie along creeks (Shell Bank Creek) and canals with large marinas and even a horse corral. Yet again, this does not look and feel like Brooklyn. Long-standing residents of Irish descent refer to the community as being
cois farraige, which is an Irish language phrase meaning "by the sea."
Pelham Bay Park is divided by the Hutchinson River. The southern portion features two unusual sights, a spectacular war memorial and a statue remnant from an old stadium. The World War Memorial (1925) designed by John Sheridan is one of the best-maintained monuments in all of NYC. Rice Memorial Stadium (1925) was recently demolished. It featured a small Greek temple framing Louis St. Lannes' heroic statue The America Boy. The stadium was given to the city by the widow of Isaac L. Rice, developer of storage batteries for cars and first president of the Electric Storage Battery Co. in 1897. In gratitude, city fathers named neighboring streets Watt, Ampere, and Ohm. Rice was also inventor of the Rice gambit, a chess opening.
