6/9/2023 0 Comments Manhattan beach by egan![]() ![]() Grant officiated at the Manhattan Beach Hotel opening, which featured historic tableaux, fireworks, and a performance of the Manhattan Beach March by John Philip Sousa. east of Coney Island) Hotel in the late 1870s. Corbin constructed the Manhattan Beach Hotel and the adjacent Oriental (i.e. When wealthy banker and railroad nabob Austin Corbin built the Manhattan Beach Hotel and the Manhattan Beach Railway that brought the well to do to the shore, though, it must have seemed perfectly natural to bring the big city to the wilds of far-off Gravesend Town. Manhattan Beach doesn’t even face Manhattan - at least Manhattan can be spotted from Greenpoint’s Manhattan Avenue. With that in mind I had no idea why a beach and a neighborhood at the southern end of Brooklyn should be named for Manhattan. I have always thought that Brooklyn should have a somewhat wary, adversarial relationship with Manhattan, albeit a cordial one. ![]()
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