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Brooklyn’s Best Seashell Collector

At low tide we spotted a rather larger looking man over the seawall, past the protective boulders and down in the sand of Bath Beach right about where the British forces and Hessian troops walked onto Long Island for the Battle of Long Island in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. 

Our first thought, metal detector looking for a find; but without a metal detector in sight we cannot help but think, seashell collector?

We then spotted another large man nearby who was digging around in the boulders looking for something.

Ummm, yeah.  Dead bodies, drugs, bars of gold, sand, seashells, workout equipment, tanning salon, whatever it was that they were up to just didn’t look right. 

They were just a couple of nice professional seashell collectors.  Nothing more than kind hearted business men, family men, right?

Coney Island Parachute Drop Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

Most transplants to New York, or people who live too far from Coney Island to feesably walk or bike to it have probably only seen the parachute drop in Coney Island from up close and underneath it.

While it’s cool up close, it’s a completely different beast when seeing it in a frame of reference with tall buildings (and a crain) in the much nearer foreground across Gravesend Bay — or Caesars Bay, if you’re an idiot from Brooklyn who doesn’t understand that Caesars Bay was only a marketplace named after a man named Caesar, and not the actual name of the bay.


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