tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488423742663364242.post8903776836622930602..comments2024-01-27T18:21:00.875-05:00Comments on Best View in Brooklyn: When the Park was Won - Excellent Photos and Information about the ParkBestViewInBrooklynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00020026181975097401noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488423742663364242.post-91708190761930480692009-08-03T11:26:52.994-04:002009-08-03T11:26:52.994-04:00Those pictures are great. But I will have to ques...Those pictures are great. But I will have to question the words of the park commissioner (Richard Young - commissioner of brooklyn & queens parks) when he calls the former lake "a natural lake". most historic references to the lake indicate that it was originally a "kettle hole" - a depression left by the melting glacier 14,000 years earlier and that the local community expanded it and made it into the lake we see in the 1902 report. locals actually stocked the lake with carp. enterprising kids would catch the carp and sell them to the local fish market on fifth Ave. by the way, the 1902 report also tells how 20 "parks" were created on 4th Avenue in Sunset from 40th to 60th Street. These patches of green were in the center of the avenue and were each a little over 200' long. The City planted 200 trees and 642 shrubs in these tiny parks. And in typical city planning style - tore them all up a few years later to build the 4th Avenue subway...tonyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07381554892021184937noreply@blogger.com