Plum Beach

From OSWIKI

Plum Beach is a beach and surrounding neighborhood along the north shore of Rockaway Inlet, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is located near the neighborhoods of Sheepshead Bay and Gerritsen Beach just off the Belt Parkway. It is named for the beach plums that grow wild there. Since 1972 it has been a part of Gateway National Recreation Area, though the parking lot and greenway that provide primary access to the shore are the responsibility of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and the New York City Department of Transportation. Relative remoteness combined with easy access to the Belt Parkway has made the beach attractive to people who are looking for sex and violence, making this beach a hotspot for criminal activity.

A Local Blog Opinion

Plum Beach is a grimy spit of sand that is just past Sheepshead Bay and part of Gateway National Park. It's beautiful and filthy and therefore gloriously neglected, unkempt and various. It appears to attract people of all races and creeds. It's entered via a parking area that is just off the Belt Parkway, a major highway. A lot seems to go on in this parking lot; it's the kind of place where people might meet for illicit affairs. There are also liaisons in the dunes. I've heard there are poachers of the local sealife. I've seen people performing religious rites, tossing flowers and fruits into the water. Fishermen also come to stand in the water. Boats and garbage wash up on a shore that is littered with broken shells. In May and June, at the new and full moons, throngs of horseshoe crabs gather to mate. It's a risky business--the females arrive to lay their eggs at high tide, and the males swarm around them, frantically maneuvering to hitch to a female's shell and inseminate her eggs when she buries herself in the sand and releases them. The breaking waves often overturn these crabs, leaving them waving their legs and tails helplessly in the air. Some never right themselves, and as the water recedes their carcasses dry slowly in the sand.

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Plum Beach, an older, run down beach often used for illicit activities - http://original-sin.net/wiki/Plum_Beach