Van Brunt Waterfront

This is the third in a series of videos created for the Carroll Gardens Diary of the changing streetscape of Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Columbia Street from the 1950's through today. Most of the changes are due to the trench of the BQE, but there have also been huge changes in the port.

Today's is a section of Van Brunt Street that used to extend north to create a street grid with two streets that only have stubs left: Irving and Sedgewick Streets.

My grandmother once told me that she and my grandfather used to go park the car down there.

"Oh, when you couldn't find a parking spot?"

"Yeah, right."