Monkeying around Cropsey #2 Traditional Cache

This is my second, I guess the series will not be in order but hey...its a good walk! Park nearby but please watch for incoming cars off the belt as there is no stop lights until after the exit. Hold your parents hands kiddies! Cache is big enough to leave small toys or items. We left a monkey to start the exchange.

When log is almost full, both sides, let me know so I may collect log and replace.

Welcome to Cropsey!

As you approach Coney Island, Cropsey Avenue has to cross two bridges. The first takes traffic across the Belt Parkway, built between 1938 and 1940, and has ramps allowing access and exit.

A 1960s recollection: the B64 bus recently traveled to Coney Island, and the MTA kept flipping between using 28th and Cropsey or Harway and Stillwell Avenues as the route. When ths bus used 28th-Cropsey I marveled at one of the last remaining Corvington-style wheel stoplights (seen on this page) still in place at Bay 48th. By the 1970s it had been replaced with a newer model.

After a couple years of dormancy, a brilliant chrome diner, just south of the Belt Parkway, has reopened for business. It is a 1975 Kullman Diner, later renovated.