Places tagged #gravesend by Kathleen Patricia Odenthal
Belt Pkwy
Kathleen Patricia Odenthal: Now in the #Gravesend section of Brooklyn, the Belt enters exit 6, which connects to Cropsey Avenue. Westbound, this junction is split into exit 6N and exit 6S, also serving Stillwell Avenue. The parkway bends eastward and crosses over the Coney Island Complex, a large railroad yard for the New York City Subway. Just before entering exit 7, the eastbound lanes cross just north of the Neptune Avenue subway station.
Gravesend Cemetery
Kathleen Patricia Odenthal: With its rickety headstones and old, crooked trees, the #Gravesend Cemetery looks like something out of a Halloween horror movie, but it's actually an historic site that dates back to 1643, when English Quakers decided to turn the land given to them by the governor of New Amsterdam into the community's final resting place. Established by Lady Deborah Moody, Gravesend is near Coney Island and Bensonhurst, and it sits parallel to another famous memorial ground, the Van Sicklen Family Cemetery.
Lady Moody Square
Kathleen Patricia Odenthal: Lady Moody was the only woman to found a colonial settlement in early North America and was the first female landowner in the New World. She had an unusual influence in a society dominated by men, and was described by contemporaries as "a dangerous woman." The settlement she founded was "Grafes Ende", what is now #Gravesend Brooklyn.