In the Swingin’ Sixties everyones parents and I would pass the park on periodic visits to E. J. Korvettes Department Store, which was at the end of Bay Parkway. After Korvettes went bankrupt and closed in 1980 the store became part of the Caesar’s Bay mall. Bensonhurst Park was also the southern end of my bike trips along Gravesend Bay and the Narrows. The northern end of the bike path is at the old 69th Street ferry pier. Eventually the city intends to connect the bike paths all over Brooklyn’s waterfronts, but how this will be engineered is anyone’s guess.
A big Tudor apartment building faces Bensonhurst Park; right: a pair of attached porched houses at Bay 31st, where you are standing now.
What looks like a standard-issue apartment building across the street on West 32nd bears the improbable name of Hanfredene Hall.
