Gerritsen Creek

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Gerritsen Creek is a short watercourse in Brooklyn that empties into Jamaica Bay.[1] The creek's original headwaters have been buried, but some of the creek remains, and the mouth is part of a nature conservation area.

References

  1. "History of Marine Park". Archived from the original on 2013-11-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20131118171035/http://www.marineparkcivic.com/history.htm. Retrieved 2014-08-07. "Around 1920 the creek north of Avenue U was converted into an underground storm drain."