Plumb Beach
Park · Plumb Beach, New York
A federally managed shoreline unit of Gateway National Recreation Area's Jamaica Bay Unit, co-managed by the National Park Service and NYC Parks. It has a parking lot, restrooms and a kayak launch, is used for windsurfing and kiteboarding, and is open daily from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. It is not a designated swimming beach.
History
The National Park Service assumed control in 1972, when the site was incorporated into the newly created Gateway National Recreation Area. Its shoreline, tidal mudflat, low saltmarsh, tidal lagoon, dune system and woodland thickets at the entrance to Gerritsen Creek make it important horseshoe-crab habitat, with the crabs coming ashore in May and June.
Visit
Belt Parkway eastbound, after Exit 9 and before Exit 11, Brooklyn, NY
Photo "Dunes at Plumb Beach": GK tramrunner229, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
