![Before the Belt: Looking at Brooklyn’s lost bay in Gravesend Before the Belt: Looking at Brooklyn’s lost bay in Gravesend](https://thumbs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/12102418/Gravesend-Bay-1.png?w=768&format=webp)
“The area seen in these views was later filled with sand from the Bay and the new circumferential highway.” 1930; via NYPL
Before the Belt: Looking at Brooklyn’s lost bay in Gravesend
See the Bay back in time
“The area seen in these views was later filled with sand from the Bay and the new circumferential highway.” 1930; via NYPL
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