Posted on 06/14/2011 8:04:17 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Late 50’s pic??
Winning The Future
And they STILL owe us for Meigs!!
I won’t forget, either!
1940’s (WW II)
OK it looked more recent than that. Should have figured it out from previous posts.
Is this really camping or is this really for the homeless that Obama has creatted?
It’ll smell like pee within 48 hours after opening.
Hell, it might create some jobs, TVA-style.
What a riot...litteraly! We are going to be collecting candidates for the Darwin award from this adventure.
Future concentration camp.
Did it ever occur to you to camp in Brooklyn?
Or Anybody?
In New York Ciy, with no guns allowed, out in the open, no thanks.
I lived there for 4 years and trust me, it will NOT look like an episode of My Three Sons.
Get ready for a giant, urban debacle.
New York (and CA) continue their great Central Planning that failed in the USSR.
Yet they have no money for national parks.
Obamavilles.
You’re not from Brooklyn... right?
Wonder if the fences around the airport are still intact?
I have never been to Brooklyn (or NY) but it does not sound like a reasonable idea.
We have lots of free camping sites here. In fact the town I live in keeps 3 motorhome/travel trailer spaces that they allow staying for free with AC power furnished for several days at a time. And the natives are friendly.
I ask you now, what could possibly go wrong with this scenario?
Floyd Bennett Field is just across the Rockaways; I’ve been there many times. Being on Jamaica Bay it’s a great place for fishing or launching a boat.
It was New York City's first municipal airport and opened in 1931. Throughout the 1930's, it was the site of many important first and record breaking flights. Some of the more famous pilots to originate their flights from the field were Wiley Post (pictured below), Howard Hughes, Amelia Earhart, Roscoe Turner, Laura Ingalls, Jimmy Doolittle, Jacqueline Cochran, and Douglas "Wrongway" Corrigan.
In 1941, the U. S. Navy leased Floyd Bennett Field from the City of New York. It became Naval Air Station-New York. It remained busy during the World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. During these times, the Navy and Marine Corps used the field for their Reserve Squadrons. In 1971, the Naval Air Station was decommissioned. Today the Coast Guard and NYC Police Department Aviation Units are based there.
In 1974 it became part of Gateway National Recreation Area. Being off the beaten track, at the end of Brooklyn, and with limited public transportation (only the Q35 bus) it doesn’t get many visitors. I’d have no qualms about camping there.
“Campgrounds? In Brooklyn?”
Detention center. :)
This is a view of "the city" from there:
Photos of the current camping area:
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