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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Grew up in the area and its great to see the old pictures of how its changed. One person found this helpful. At 71 years of age, I did just that! From start to finish this book was a journey back through my childhood days, having lived on 36th Street and Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, just outside Sea Gate. My life then was intertwined with Sea Gate friends, classmates and the very wonderful Teacher-Songwriter Kadish Millet.
This book is a treasure trove for anyone that lived those wonderful times, but also for those, like myself that learned so much more about the history of my beloved Sea Gate and Coney Island. Job well done, Arnold Rosen.
One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Good book for select locals. It seems only the author's friends were interviewed. I felt like I was reading someone's diary. Could have interviewed more people. Overall, it was okay.
I bought this book for my mom, who lived in sea gate for the first 23 years of her life, starting in Her parents lived there until the late 70s. She recognized names of people, the photos, and the history. As a young child, I remember the smells of the ocean, the brick walls we played on, the man at the gate house, the "magic turn" as we took exit 6 off the belt parkway. And every year, more Americans are coping with this fear by gating themselves off from the rest of the world.
Emile Saint-Lot, 62, disagrees with this reasoning.
He says he thinks the gate prevents the neighborhood from becoming crowded and overrun with beach-goers, preserving its quietness, not necessarily its safety. The fact that we are in a gated community gives you, maybe, a false sense of security. In the morning, the bikes were gone. He says this taught him a lesson: People of color, says Saint-Lot, are not moving to Sea Gate in droves simply because they may not know about it.
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He explains that people learn about neighborhoods through word of mouth, and often that results in large ethnic enclaves in certain neighborhoods, like the Chinese in Sunset Park, West Indians in Crown Heights, or the Polish in Greenpoint. When he was looking to buy a house, Saint-Lot told the realtor that he wanted to live in a neighborhood that would accept his biracial family; his wife is Russian.
He also wanted to live near the water, which reminded him of the island he had left behind as a teenager. As for perceptions on the other side of the gate, they vary, says Judi Orlando, executive director of Astella Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization that works to improve quality of life for the Coney Island community. She knows several people who have moved from Coney Island to Sea Gate, she says.
The communities are conjoined; there are no stores or schools or services in Sea Gate, so Sea Gate residents are also involved in the Coney Island community.
Spanakos walks the length of the Coney Island boardwalk every morning. Saint-Lot used to take his children to the amusement park.
Maldonado says that many Sea Gate residents are involved with the Coney Island community board. She also says that while she grew up in Sea Gate, her husband is from Coney Island. Despite the gate, the police, and the barbed wire fence that define it, the Sea Gate-Coney Island boundary is more fluid than meets the eye.
And if I spot something suspicious on the street, I call the cops up, they come and they check the guy out. Sea Gate is a private gated community at the far western end of Coney Island at the southwestern tip of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
The area that is now Sea Gate was once known as Norton's Point. The neighborhood held a reputation for gambling before it was developed into a residential neighborhood. Sea Gate was developed into a full neighborhood in by developer Alrick Man. Sea Gate is surrounded on three sides by water with private beaches. In , the Army Corps of Engineers completed its work of replenishing Coney beaches and building new jetties, including a long jetty at the border of Sea Gate and Coney Island.
In October , Hurricane Sandy devastated the neighborhood, which was inundated by ocean water and battered by strong winds. The area sustained significant damage and numerous houses were destroyed. Residents refer to Sea Gate as "the gate" and venturing into adjoining Coney Island as going "out the gate".
There are no stores in the neighborhood.