Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn: Alphabetical Streets and a Vanished Resort

Both hotels hosted concerts and fireworks, and John Philip Sousa wrote a march called Manhattan Beach in 1893.

The rail line outlived the resort by a little. The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway, which Corbin controlled from 1880 and which the Long Island Rail Road later absorbed, ran a dedicated Manhattan Beach Branch with eight stations from Fresh Pond in Queens down to a Manhattan Beach terminal. Passenger service ended on May 14, 1924, freight in 1935, and the tracks came up between 1938 and 1941.

The hotel sites were rebuilt as housing and as Manhattan Beach Park, which the Parks Department opened to the public in 1955 to relieve crowding at the neighboring beaches of Coney Island and Brighton Beach. The eastern tip went a different way: it held the Sheepshead Bay Maritime Training Center for Merchant Marine, Coast Guard and Navy personnel, then Manhattan Beach Air Force Station from 1954 to 1959, and the 71-acre site was redeveloped as Kingsborough Community College, established in 1963. The college's beach is open to its own community rather than to the general public.

The streets are named alphabetically from Amherst to Pembroke, A to P, after English places. One of them still carries Corbin's name: on September 26, 2017 Community Board 15 voted unanimously to co-name Corbin Place as M. Corbin Place, for the Revolutionary War figure Margaret Corbin, putting distance between the street and Austin Corbin's record without making residents change their deeds and identification.

There is no subway station in Manhattan Beach. The nearest are Brighton Beach station, in Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay station at Sheepshead Bay Road and East 16th Street, in Sheepshead Bay; the B and Q serve both.

Buses carry the last part. The B1 runs between Bay Ridge, at 4th Avenue and 87th Street, and Manhattan Beach, terminating at Mackenzie Street and Oriental Boulevard at Kingsborough Community College, by way of 86th Street, Avenue X, Ocean Parkway and Brighton Beach Avenue, passing the Brighton Beach station on the way. The B49 runs along Oriental Boulevard to the college and is reachable from Sheepshead Bay station. The BM3 express bus runs between Manhattan — State Street and Battery Place, and East 57th Street at 2nd Avenue — and a terminus at Emmons Avenue and Shore Boulevard in Sheepshead Bay, immediately adjacent to Manhattan Beach.

No rail service reaches Manhattan Beach. The Long Island Rail Road's Manhattan Beach Branch ended passenger service in 1924. No NYC Ferry route serves it either.