Secrets of Coney Island Creek: Photo Show

Images courtesy of Charles Denson

An exhibition of over 100 photographs by Charles Denson opens tonight at the Brooklyn College Library. Denson is the author of Coney Island Lost and Found, easily the most comprehensive and engaging Coney history we've read.

The reception is tonight, Thursday, October 18 and the exhibit runs through to November 2. Here's more from the press release:

"Denson’s subjects include Voodoo and African-Christian ceremonies performed in the Creek’s “holy waters”; fishermen of diverse Southeast Asian cultures; the abandoned yellow submarine, spooky shipwrecks, and treasures dredged out of the Creek. The environmental challenge documented in the photos is the ongoing remediation of the Creek by Keyspan. The exhibit also features archival photos from the 1800s, artifacts dredged out of the Creek, and Coney Island’s oldest existing artifact, an 1823 Toll House sign.

For additional info about the exhibition and Charles Denson, a Coney Island native who began documenting the Creek in the 1960s and 1970s, please visit coneyislandhistory.org

The Brooklyn College Library is located at 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Library hours are Mon-Thurs, 9 am- 9 pm; Friday, 9am -5 pm; and Sat.-Sun. 10 am -6 pm.
Tel. 718-951-5346 (Special Collections) or 718-951-4540 (Desk).

Directions: Take the Q local to Ave H station or the #2 or #5 to the Flatbush Ave/Nostrand Ave. Station. Please visit brooklyn.cuny.edu for additional directions. Admission is free."

Labels: Brooklyn College Library, Charles Denson, Coney Island, Coney Island Creek, Coney Island Lost and Found, events, exhibition, gallery, photographer, photography, show

Comments

[Andamom]

Is that really a submarine? Where can one find it? I've regularly thought about what lurks beneath the water around and in Brooklyn -- . I remember some people diving the Gowanus Canal (with serious gear obviously)...