A Hurricane Dropped A Bar On This Town | Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn Ny

[@LRe63]

I grew up there, in the Old Section - from 1965 to 1981. The beach at the end of Gerritsen Ave is called "the Point". We used to swim across and jump from the Belt Parkway bridge into the water. You had to swim around rusting cars under the water at the Point. Also lots of cars were dumped in the fields along Gerritsen Avenue, which is called the Back Weeds - we'd dig holes in the sand and use the car hoods to make roofs for underground forts. The playground down there was called Glass Park because of all the broken bottles on the ground. I'm sure lots of other kids who grew up there have plenty of stories too!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I love when a local gives some insight on what it was like to live there 👍

[@p.s.4201]

I lived off Hyman Ct. Moved away in 78. P.S. 277, Kiddie Beach(only open during summer). We would dig under the docks in the winter. You remember the figure 8 track back there in the weeds? When they raised the Avenue. Dutch farms and the Best pizza place... Sure do miss those Squares! Oh the block parties... My Uncle was the guy who sold fireworks for the 4th of July and then He and the neighbors would block off the street(dead end) Noel Ave and we had a big 4th party.

[@tinyboi_]

@@p.s.4201 I currently live on Nova Court. Things have not really changed around the neighborhood. the block parties still happen, fireworks are lit off every day and the parks still have glass. The pizza place that your talking about, Victoria Pizza, is still as amazing as you say! Most of all, Kiddie beach is still open in the summer and is more crowded than ever.

[@ndogg20]

I remember walking across that area on my way to Kings Plaza and seeing abandoned cars with MIDNIGHT MOTORS sprayed painted on them. This was in the 70s. Wonder if that was a real car theft gang or just a joke.

[@OjmeisterFPS]

I was born and raised in gerritsen cool to learn the history behind it

[@danfreisting2874]

Great history given and views of the area I've never seen before. Thanks

[@happyme3376]

Great tour, Mooney!! I can't imagine a bar floating for 2 miles; that's so bizarre! I learn something new every time I watch one, and thank you for that. Your videos are awesomely entertaining, and the fact that they're informative is a bonus. Stay safe, and Hi, Truck! :)

[@letsgomets002]

My neighborhood......one of the few good neighborhoods in Bklyn....I'm never leaving....

[@leesaunders7232]

Cheers for the video. I only found out about this place a couple of days ago. Hard to believe this is in Brooklyn. Looks so quaint and peaceful.

[@poppajoebeneckesr7573]

Whitney Mansion is on Burnett Street between V and Whitney, the mill foundation is still standing almost directly across the street near the creek.

[@maxmayfire9958]

Ayyy hope you liked the neighborhood. Hope you got to check out the skate park and the airplane fields in the back,it leads to the back weeds,had some fun adventures there

[@Rusty_trombone62]

My Ex GF lived on Dare ct between lois and the water. I spent a lot of years in that house. And when I was 18 I took the Emt Emergency medical technician course in 1993 at the volunteer fire department. Which actually had me working for nyc ems till fdny called Me to be a firefighter. Now im retired in Florida lol 😆

[@margaretgreatwordsoftrutha3056]

I grew up here in 1938 to 1953 loved it

[@arthurshannon1851]

Wow 1938. Would love to see some pixels from back then.

[@misspaula7542]

What a cute little town, I notice this video uploaed in 2020, and your videos have definitely improved through time. Mooney, I think you need a smaller car for all your adventures hahahahahaha, watching you flip that truck around, and navigate all over the place and on small roads like these is hysterical, but I guess you love your rig! Youre adorable. Im so glad I found your youtube!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

You’re right I love the truck and it gives a nice high up perspective

[@happyme3376]

I LOVE Truck!! Cheers to Truck, and may it get a new motor and KEEP ON TRUCKING, after this one gives up the ghost! (Also, I obviously love hyperbole too, but seriously, Truck rocks! ) :)

[@hooper4581]

Lol drove by a good friends house. Gerritson is awesome. Definitely a “tight” neighborhood.should have seen it before and during Hurricane sandy. I saw the bar !!!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I love hearing from someone that’s familiar with the area

[@jamesmooney8933]

Nice town, you'd never think it was in New York.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

You’re right

[@lindakurman8642]

Hung out there with friends when I was a kid. There is a beach by the end called “ kiddy beach”. There is also an island that some went to maumau island. The park is attached to a middle school there. Most of the homes were raised after Sandy. Some were lower than the street.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Such a cool place

[@lindakurman8642]

It is cool. I grew up in an apt and thought it was so cute

[@margaretgreatwordsoftrutha3056]

My mom and dad were volunteers on the fire dept

[@johnsimon4873]

Have never seen this side of Brooklyn before

[@Misstonyah]

You don't want to go there. Too racist

[@RazPerignon]

@@Misstonyah kinda like being white in East New York

[@JTC2227]

So Insane

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Very wild

[@tinyboi_]

7:52 the street with no sign, that is mine!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I love when a local finds my video

[@joecandela]

I used to go boating in there when I was a kid and my friend lived in Plum St. I grew up a couple neighborhoods away in Bergen Beach. Try to get to that neighborhood and I can tell you anything you need to know about it. Thank you !!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Bergen beach is on the list!

[@arthurshannon1851]

Who else remembers that episode of law and order filmed in the house on gerritsen av? The house all the law at end. .

[@davidreeves8388]

That's where all my family from .Allen Ave and Ave w and plumb 2

[@regmcg4171]

That bar washed up on my corner. Some of the locals tried to keep it for themselves, but it was confiscated and destroyed by the police. The owners were furious that the police never contacted them as they would have arranged to retrieve it. Their license with their contact information was still nailed onto the wall.

[@maryannmclinden3602]

I want to send you a pic of the bar that washed up. It’s funny as you where taking about it you where passing the spot that it landed. 😂😂😂

[@MOONEYDashCam]

You have a picture of it?

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I just looked it up that’s so odd

[@urbana11229]

nice job, I enjoyed that.. bumpy ride down Seba.. thought it was jump my jalopy !! Hey you passed the "She's The One" house in the 7:40's and you didn't say anything...long live The Fighting Fitzpatricks. and the director choose to wear the basketball uniform he bought from my business in that 1996 movie !!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

You’re a true local!

[@urbana11229]

by I'm a relative new comer.... got here in 1961 !! :-)

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I wasn’t even born for another 36 years... damn

[@urbana11229]

thats ok, records are meant to be broken! Cal Ripken's consecutive games played record will be broken someday, and my "consecutive months lived in" record will also be broken!!

[@markgiallo3129]

Wow didnt see one convenience store pizzeria barber shop or neighborhood tavern strange for Brooklyn

[@maxmayfire9958]

(I was raised in gerritsen so I know all this)They have a pizzeria called Victoria,next to it they have a local bar called the gather inn and they’ve added barber shops sometimes here and there it honestly depends. I live around the corner from a good deli (not gonna name it cause I ain’t tryna get doxxed lol) and across the street from one of the delis is a skate park. Pretty neat

[@terencewinters2154]

Broad channel with lights . Not too far from " crazy Eddie's " it's insane. Breezy rockaway point all are similar and have good swimmers for good reason. There are irreplaceables in those low sea level elevations . Fishing swimming and sea air. Take it from the prince of tides you can take the kid out of south brooklyn and queens but you never get the smell of salt air out of their nose. There is something almost ethereally preternatural about it . Like the nesting place of a tern. And when you get the space and unblock the bay and ocean views you have spectacular sunrises and sunsets. Horizons not familiar to the denser and darker parts of nyc where you can feel like a rat in a maze. This is why contemplatives flock there for the release from that other semi-entombment even if you have to suffer a hurricane .

[@happyme3376]

Are you a writer? If not, I hope you start!

[@ahnraemenkhera7451]

Is aluminum siding a good idea in a hurricane zone? Why did the city permit that?

[@davidreeves8388]

That neighborhood got messed up in hurricane Sandy ton of flooding .and my aunt lives in breezy point queens the whole neighborhood caught on fire now it totally rebuilt .and yes is the old and new section

[@cableTVcutters]

got any glendale vids ?

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Not yet I’ll have to get on that

[@Hamjr193]

drove right by my house

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Very few areas are like that in the world i enjoyed making this vid a lot

[@NewYorkSWAGG100]

Which house👀👀

[@davidreeves8388]

The tamaqua bar lol

[@robbrown6934]

Still no muffler!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Still no muffler to this day

[@davidreeves8388]

That's st James church

[@Jmar1024]

The kids in the neighborhood named the bar "sandy bar" and wrote it on the bar in graffiti lol

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I’m sure they had a lot of fun with that

[@carlosmateo1845]

Wolphert Gerretse van Kouwenhoven carriage house. Where is it? Can not find it anywhere.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Yeah same here i couldn’t find it either

[@urbana11229]

around the 7:00 minute mark of this video, I hope you were playing this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJLIeYOEi8yUla8 , since thats where the movie was filmed !

[@doot7905]

You drove by my house EDIT:i spelt by like buy

[@cableTVcutters]

dashcam man!!! use dads intro

[@MOONEYDashCam]

It has a ring to it

[@terrycarlton6991]

Man all the clanking noise really distracts from this video