Canarsie, Brooklyn

"Canarsie" is an adaptation to English phonology of a word in the Lenape language for "fenced land" or "fort".{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028866528 |title=The Indian Place-names on Long Island and Islands Adjacent: With Their Probable Significations |last=Tooker |first=William Wallace |date=1911 |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |language=en}}{{Rp|32}} Europeans would often refer to the indigenous people living in an area by the local place-name, though it is unclear whether the "Canarsie" name originally referred to their entire ancestral land, or whether it merely referred to a single "fenced village".{{Rp|32–33}} References may be found in contemporary documents to "Canarsie Indians"{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoflongisl01ross |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyoflongisl01ross/page/19 19] |title=A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time |last=Ross |first=Peter |date=1902 |publisher=Lewis publishing Company |language=en}}{{Rp|19}} (alternatively "Canarsee"{{Cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/indians-deeds-led-era-article-1.815023 |title=For Indians, Deeds Led to End of Era |last=Liff |first=Bob |date=November 26, 1998 |work=NY Daily News |access-date=January 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125134719/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/indians-deeds-led-era-article-1.815023 |archive-date=January 25, 2018 |url-status=live |language=en}}). Their name has also been transcribed as "Connarie See" (a name for Jamaica Bay), "Conorasset", "Canarisse", "Canaryssen", "Canause", "Canarisea", and "Kanarsingh".{{Rp|32}} The village itself was referred to as "Keskachauge" or "Kestateuw", alternatively transcribed as "Castateuw".{{Rp|35}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/canarsie-park/history |title=Canarsie Park Highlights : NYC Parks |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141435/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/canarsie-park/history |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} After European settlement, the area became variously known as "Flatlands Neck", "Vischers Hook", and "Great Neck".{{rp|9}}

"By way of Canarsie" became a mid-twentieth century American English figure of speech meaning "to come to one's destination by a roundabout way or from a distant point." The expression has dropped from modern common parlance.{{cite web |url=http://theweeklynabe.com/2012/05/03/brief-history-of-canarsie-brooklyn/ |title=From resort nights to white flight: a brief history of Canarsie |date=May 3, 2012 |website=The Weekly Nabe |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130091744/http://theweeklynabe.com/2012/05/03/brief-history-of-canarsie-brooklyn/ |archive-date=January 30, 2018}}

Canarsie was described as "the butt of vaudeville jokes" in the 1939 WPA Guide to New York City. A New York Times article in 1955 characterized Canarsie as a former "lame vaudeville gag".{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1955/07/29/archives/our-changing-city-southeastern-brooklyn-area-canarsie-goes-on-a.html |title=Our Changing City: Southeastern Brooklyn Area; Canarsie Goes on a Building Spree as Brownsville Grows Shabbier |last=Schumach |first=Murray |date=July 29, 1955 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129195651/http://www.nytimes.com/1955/07/29/archives/our-changing-city-southeastern-brooklyn-area-canarsie-goes-on-a.html |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} By the 2010s, "The Flossy" was also being used as a local nickname for Canarsie.{{Cite news |last=Caramanica |first=Jon |date=2020-07-09 |title=The Rapid Rise of Pop Smoke, Brooklyn Rap's Homecoming King (Published 2019) |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/arts/music/pop-smoke-rap.html |access-date=2020-10-06 |issn=0362-4331 |quote=After securing a couple of outfits at Patron of the New, Pop Smoke (born Bashar Jackson) slipped behind the wheel of his navy Range Rover for a drive out to Canarsie. 'You going to see a lot of flossing — a lot of young kids, they look rich,' he said of the Brooklyn neighborhood where he spent much of his childhood, the child of Panamanian and Jamaican parents.... In local parlance, Canarsie is called 'The Flossy.' |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214182419/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/arts/music/pop-smoke-rap.html |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Bijur |first=Ben |date=2020-06-24 |title=Get To Know Swirv: The 19 Year Old U.K. Producer Taking Over The Drill Scene |url=https://kazimagazine.com/editorials/get-to-know/get-to-know-swirv-the-19-year-old-u-k-producer-taking-over-the-drill-scene/ |access-date=2020-08-07 |website=KAZI. MAGAZINE |language=en-US |archive-date=July 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703055321/https://kazimagazine.com/editorials/get-to-know/get-to-know-swirv-the-19-year-old-u-k-producer-taking-over-the-drill-scene/ |url-status=live}}

Canarsie is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin and Williams Avenue; on the north by Linden Boulevard and the Bay Ridge Branch; on the west by Ralph Avenue; on the southwest by Paerdegat Basin; and on the southeast by Belt Parkway and Jamaica Bay.{{cite web |last=Holter |first=Lauren |title=Canarsie: A quiet neighborhood on Brooklyn's waterfront |website=am New York |date=June 15, 2016 |url=https://www.amny.com/real-estate/city-living/brooklyn/canarsie-brooklyn-offers-suburban-feel-in-new-york-city-1.11919786 |access-date=January 25, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704072738/http://www.amny.com/real-estate/city-living/brooklyn/canarsie-brooklyn-offers-suburban-feel-in-new-york-city-1.11919786 |archive-date=July 4, 2017}}{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Canarsie,+Brooklyn,+NY/@40.639652,-73.917466,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25cc33d833d25:0xe008a74af20603b6!8m2!3d40.6402325!4d-73.9060579|title=Canarsie, Brooklyn, NY|access-date=January 25, 2018}} It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of East Flatbush on the northwest, Flatlands on the west, Bergen Beach on the southwest, Brownsville on the north, and the Spring Creek subsection of East New York on the east and northeast.

Prior to European settlement, Canarsie featured the only large swath of uplands along the Jamaica Bay coast within the town of Flatlands. The islands in the bay, such as Bergen, Mill, and Barren islands, mostly featured marshy land with small pieces of uplands.{{rp|10}} In the 19th century, a few ports along the coast were built for limited industrial use. The coast was more significantly modified in the early 20th century, when more than {{convert|1|mi|km}} of shoreline was filled in with a bulkhead.{{rp|47}}

The coastal lands around Jamaica Bay, including present-day Canarsie, were originally settled by the Canarsie Indians.{{cite journal |last=Black |first=Frederick R. |url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/gate/jamaica_bay_hrs.pdf |title=Jamaica Bay: a History |publisher=United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service |date=1981 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205130111/https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/gate/jamaica_bay_hrs.pdf |archive-date=February 5, 2017}}{{rp|4}} The present-day neighborhood of Canarsie was one of the Canarsie tribe's main villages.{{cite book |last=Bolton |first=Reginald P. |title=Indian Life of Long Ago in the City of New York |publisher=Harmony Books |year=1934 |isbn=978-0-517-50155-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-CeAAAACAAJ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207115834/https://books.google.com/books?id=o-CeAAAACAAJ |archive-date=February 7, 2018}}{{rp|148}} They probably lived near the intersection of present-day Seaview and Remsen Avenues. Cornfields grew from the shore to as far inland as Avenue J, and were centered around East 92nd Street.{{rp|6}}{{rp|2}} The Canarsie Indians grew cornfields on three flats within the area.{{Cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/237.pdf |title=Water Quality Facility Plan: Paerdegat Basin, Brooklyn, New York: Phase lA Archaeological Assessment |first1=Betsy |last1=Kearns |first2=Ceca |last2=Kirkorian |first3=Richard |last3=Schaefer |website=nyc.gov |publisher=New York City Department of Environmental Protection |date=September 1993 |access-date=January 25, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207115834/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/237.pdf |archive-date=February 7, 2018}}{{rp|9}} As late as the 1930s, "immense shell heaps" could be found at the site.{{rp|6}}{{rp|148}} These shells might have served as planting fields.{{rp|8}}

In 1624, the Dutch Republic incorporated much of the current New York City area into the colony of New Netherland.{{rp|4}} In 1636, as the Dutch was expanding outward from present-day Manhattan, Dutch settlers founded the town of Achtervelt (later Amersfoort, then Flatlands) and purchased {{convert|15,000|acre|ha}} around Jamaica Bay. Amersfoort was centered around the present-day intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Flatlands Avenue.{{rp|9}} Canarsie Indian leaders such as Penhawitz had signed three land agreements with Dutch settlers between 1636 and 1667, handing ownership of much of their historic land to the Dutch. Many of the tribe's members started moving away, and Dutch settlers rented the cornfields that had formerly belonged to the Indians.{{Rp|7}} Much of the remaining land was located in the present-day neighborhood of Canarsie.{{Rp|33}} The first European settler in the area was Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, a former indentured servant who built a house in Flatlands circa 1652.{{Cite web |url=http://forgotten-ny.com/2008/07/canarsie-brooklyn-part-1/ |title=CANARSIE, Brooklyn Part 1 |work=Forgotten New York |date=July 2008 |language=en-US |access-date=January 25, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105070201/http://forgotten-ny.com/2008/07/canarsie-brooklyn-part-1/ |archive-date=January 5, 2018}}{{Cite landmarks |page=50}} Wyckoff's house still stands along Clarendon Road, and it is believed to be the oldest structure in New York State.

In 1660, present-day Canarsie Point was given the name Vischers Hook ("fishers' hook"). The name referred to Hoorn, a Dutch fisherman who had built a house at that location.{{rp|21}}{{cite book |last=O'Callaghan |first=E.B. |title=The Documentary History of the State of New-York: Arranged Under Direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, Secretary of State |publisher=Weed, Parsons & Company, public printers |issue=v. 1 |year=1850 |url=https://archive.org/details/documentaryhist04ocal |access-date=January 25, 2018 |page=[https://archive.org/details/documentaryhist04ocal/page/421 421]}} At the time, a group of islands extended into Jamaica Bay south of Canarsie, up to and including Barren Island.{{rp|10}}

The Indians still managed the land at Canarsie until the English took over New Amsterdam.{{Rp|10}} In 1665, Canarsie Indians signed a land agreement that gave total ownership of almost all their land to the Dutch.{{Rp|7}}{{cite book |last=Dubois |first=Anson |title=A History of the Town of Flatlands, Kings County, N.Y. |year=1884 |publisher=Brooklyn, N.Y. [W.W. Munsell] |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoftownoff00dubo}}{{rp|4}} By the time the land agreement was signed, only three Native American families remained in the area.{{Rp|7–8}} In 1670, Daniel Denton, a co-founder of the nearby town of Jamaica, wrote: "It is to be admired how strangely they have decreast by the Hand of God [...] for since my time, when there were six towns, they are reduced to two small villages."{{cite book |last=Denton |first=Daniel |title=A Brief Description of New York: Formerly Called New Netherlands |publisher=Burrows Brothers |year=1902 |url=https://archive.org/details/abriefdescripti01dentgoog |access-date=January 24, 2018 |page=[https://archive.org/details/abriefdescripti01dentgoog/page/n57 46]}} Through 1684, the Dutch and the Native Americans had signed twenty-two deeds regarding the sale of different plots of land in Flatlands. By the beginning of the 18th century, the only Canarsie Indians living in the New York City area were a few small groups in the town of Canarsie, as well as at Gerritsen Beach and Staten Island. At this time, their ancestral land in Canarsie had been fragmented and sold off to different settlers. Some plots were subsequently merged to create large plantation-style farms.{{Rp|10}} An observer noted in 1832 that "the Canarsie Indians are at this time totally extinct; not a single member of that ill-fated race is in existence".{{Rp|19}} However, a few members still remained, albeit via mixed lineage. Joel Skidmore, the last member of the tribe through his mother's side, was a tax collector from the town of Flatlands who lived in Canarsie until he died in 1907.{{cite web |last=Sherman |first=Mark |title=If You're Thinking of Living in: Canarsie |work=The New York Times |date=February 12, 1984 |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/12/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-canarsie.html |access-date=January 24, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125020257/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/12/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-canarsie.html |archive-date=January 25, 2018}}

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The towns of Flatbush and Flatlands laid competing claims to the western shore of Fresh Creek, within present-day Canarsie. A 1685 confirmation of Flatlands' boundaries did not recognize this small patch of land; instead, this land was classified as part of New Lots, then a subdivision of Flatbush. This dispute continued into the 19th century, as seen by maps from 1797 and 1873.{{rp|10}} Through this time, Canarsie remained sparsely populated. In an 1852 map, Jeremiah Schenck and James Schenck were listed as the only two landowners at Canarsie Point. They each owned {{convert|50|acre|ha}} of land. The only road in the area was what would later be Rockaway Parkway.{{rp|11}}{{cite map |title=Map of Kings and part of Queens counties, Long Island N.Y. |date=1852 |last=Dripps |first=Matthew |via=The Library of Congress |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593245/ |access-date=January 25, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190528/https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593245/ |archive-date=January 28, 2018}} The only way to Canarsie was by taking a train to Jamaica and transferring to a stagecoach, where passengers would endure a "long and uncomfortable ride" through the marshy woodlands that the road winded through.{{rp|43}}

The Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad, which opened on October 21, 1865,{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/howwegottoconeyi0000cuda |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/howwegottoconeyi0000cuda/page/192 192] |quote=canarsie trolley. |title=How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County |last=Cudahy |first=Brian J. |date=2002 |publisher=Fordham Univ Press |isbn=9780823222094 |language=en}}{{Rp|101}} offered train service from the Long Island Rail Road at the East New York station to a pier at Canarsie Landing, very close to the current junction of Rockaway Parkway and the Belt Parkway.{{cite enc-nyc2}}{{rp|864}} The railroad built a pier extending into Jamaica Bay, which was used for lumber deliveries and was later enlarged.{{rp|47}} Less than a year later, in summer 1866, the railroad started operating a ferry to Rockaway Beach, marking the start of the area's transformation into a summer beach resort.{{rp|43}} That year, there were ten daily round trips along the Canarsie railroad, but only three on the Rockaway ferry, so vacationers traveling to the Rockaways via the railroad and ferry would often stay on Canarsie Landing for a few hours. Railroad service was increased in 1867, with trains running every hour on weekdays and every half hour on Sundays; the railroad handled 122,567 passengers that year.{{rp|44}}

Five hotels soon opened on the Canarsie shore, starting with Bay View House in July 1867. In addition, restaurants and saloons began operating along Canarsie Landing.{{rp|43}} An 1867 account from a Brooklyn Daily Eagle correspondent stated that there were two railroads: the Canarsie steam dummy, which ran only to East New York, and the Nostrand Avenue Line, which connected with other streetcar lines that ran across Brooklyn. The correspondent wrote that "it has ample hotel accommodations for boarders or casual visitors, and all it needs is a good roadway along the waterside for promenade and drive."{{cite news |title=Our Local Watering Places |date=August 20, 1867 |page=2 |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50504562/ |access-date=January 27, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190454/https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50504562/ |archive-date=January 28, 2018}} The next year, an article from the Eagle noted that although Canarsie still had a reputation for being a fisherman's village, it "will be largely patronized as soon as people get the means of going there".{{cite news |title=The Summer Season. Our Pleasant Suburban Resorts. Where to Go, and How to Get There. |date=May 18, 1868 |page=2 |url=http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50332535/ |access-date=January 27, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190523/http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50332535/ |archive-date=January 28, 2018}} German, Dutch, Scottish, and Irish settlers started moving to Canarsie in large numbers during the 1870s.{{rp|201}}

Ferry service remained infrequent because any increase to ferry service would require new vessels, and in order to do that, Jamaica Bay would need to be dredged at a very high cost. At the time, the bay was a few inches deep during low tide, and a narrow, {{convert|5.5|to|7|ft|m|adj=mid|-deep}} channel stretched across the bay.{{rp|47}} The Canarsie Line employed steamboats, which were able to make a round trip in two hours and navigate the bay at low tide. During its early history, the route used steamers with a capacity of 250 passengers; later boats had larger capacity.{{rp|65}} In 1878, there were two proposals to create a more frequent transportation service between Canarsie and the Rockaways, but neither was implemented. One proposal entailed extending a railroad trestle into Jamaica Bay to shorten the ferry trip, while the other involved constructing a narrow-gauge railway that ran to Broad Channel, Queens.{{rp|44}} By that year, a rectangular peninsula extended into the bay.{{rp|47}} In 1880, the New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad constructed a trestle across the bay and started operating service across it.{{cite book |last1=Seyfried |first1=V.F. |last2=Asadorian |first2=W. |title=Old Queens, N.Y., in Early Photographs: 261 Prints |publisher=Dover Publications |series=New York City |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-486-13601-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUHCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT303 |access-date=January 27, 2018 |page=303 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226102119/https://books.google.com/books?id=qUHCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT303 |archive-date=February 26, 2018 |df=mdy-all}} White's Iron Steamboats, which sailed from Manhattan directly to the Rockaways,{{cite book |last=Cudahy |first=B.J. |title=How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County |publisher=Fordham University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8232-2211-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FtUzg07N0wwC&pg=PT67 |access-date=January 27, 2018 |page=67 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226102118/https://books.google.com/books?id=FtUzg07N0wwC&pg=PT67 |archive-date=February 26, 2018 |df=mdy-all}} started operating two years later. Despite the existence of two competitors, the Canarsie railroad saw a healthy continued patronage because many passengers wanted to go to Canarsie itself.{{rp|44, 69}}

The success of the Canarsie railroad and the variety of activities available at Canarsie Point both contributed to that area's prosperity. In the late 1860s, a boat-rental company opened in Canarsie, and by 1880, there were ten such companies, with each company owning 50 boats on average. Rentals ranged from $5 to $7 on weekdays, and from $7 to $10 on weekends.{{rp|44}} An 1882 newspaper article observed that after traveling to Canarsie "through a tract of country that looked like one vast lawn of green velvet", visitors could hire yachts or rowboats, or just breathe the fresh air.{{cite news |title=Ocean Spray: Thousands Seeking Pleasure By the Atlantic's Blue Wave |date=July 3, 1882 |page=3 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |url=http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50366746/ |access-date=January 28, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004645/http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50366746/ |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} In 1883, a large double-decker barge for theatrical and musical performances, called the "Floating Pavilion", was permanently anchored {{convert|0.75|mi|km}} off the Canarsie shore. The depth of the bay was only {{convert|4|ft|m}} deep at this point, making it suitable for bathing. A {{convert|50|ft|m|adj=on}} stage extended into the water for the performers, while bathhouses were placed on the barge's lower tier.{{cite news |title=The Pavilion in the Bay |date=July 20, 1883 |page=2 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50398968/ |access-date=January 28, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190452/https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50398968/ |archive-date=January 28, 2018}} The steamer Edith Peck regularly traveled between the shore and the barge.{{cite news |title=By the Sea: Sunday Excursionists Caught in the Rain |date=July 9, 1883 |page=2 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |url=http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50398910/ |access-date=January 28, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190422/http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50398910/ |archive-date=January 28, 2018}} Summer bungalows were also built along the bay shore, especially east of Canarsie Landing in an area called Sand Bay. Since the land was submerged during low tide, many of these houses were built on stilts.{{rp|44}} Electric lighting was installed in 1892 in a bid to attract visitors at night as well.{{rp|47}}

Canarsie also grew into a fishing hub by the late 19th century. In 1850, there were 75 fishermen in Flatlands, compared to 191 other individuals who worked in agriculture. By 1880, there were 200 fishermen in Flatlands, of which around 90% lived in Canarsie.{{rp|44}} In an 1865 account, The New York Times described the fishing village as a self-sufficient community that was "a place of much resort for fishing, and one of the best near to the city".{{cite news |title=Fishes and Fisheries; The Morality and Pleasures of Fishing |work=The New York Times |date=July 2, 1865 |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1865/07/02/news/fishes-fisheries-morality-pleasures-fishing-fishes-are-caught-their-study.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=January 27, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128132848/http://www.nytimes.com/1865/07/02/news/fishes-fisheries-morality-pleasures-fishing-fishes-are-caught-their-study.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=January 28, 2018}} Boatbuilding also became popular: the number of boatbuilders in Canarsie grew from one in 1868 to eight in 1887. Much of the boats built in Canarsie were small rowboats, but some of them were large sloops.{{rp|47}} A 1900 magazine article described the Canarsie bay shore as "a level expanse of marshy meadowland indented with shallow inlets and dotted with boathouses, fishing huts, and boat builders' cabins perched high and dry on wooden piles."{{cite book |title=Metropolitan |publisher=Blakely Hall |issue=v. 11 |year=1900 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uWZNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA30 |access-date=January 27, 2018 |page=30 |archive-date=July 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708231451/https://books.google.com/books?id=uWZNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA30 |url-status=live}} Visitors could rent a rowboat and catch fish at Ruffle Bar or other locations within Jamaica Bay. If these visitors had enough money, they could rent a large sloop and head to the open ocean to fish.{{rp|47}}

By the start of the 20th century, Canarsie was a bustling amusement district. Of the 50 buildings along the Canarsie bay shore, eighteen were hotels. Three ferry systems operated routes to Bergen Island, Barren Island, Rockaway Beach, and other destinations in Jamaica Bay.{{rp|47}} A fourth would start operations in 1915, but shuttered in 1918 after several unprofitable seasons.{{rp|65}}

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The Canarsie Line faced a steep drop in patronage in 1895, when frequent trolley service started operating to Coney Island. The line, which had operated a fleet of at least 10 vessels throughout its existence, stopped operating in 1905.{{rp|69}} The Canarsie Railroad, a subsidiary of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, acquired the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach line north of Rockaway Parkway on May 31, 1906.{{Rp|192}} The BRT then announced that it would build an elevated railroad to Canarsie. This spurred speculation of rapid real estate development in Canarsie. Residents started constructing water and sewer pipes, as well as paving roads, in anticipation of this new development.{{Cite news |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53154155/ |title=Canarsie is Destined for Great Developments |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=March 11, 1906 |access-date=January 26, 2018 |page=39 |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190525/https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53154155/ |archive-date=January 28, 2018}} The route south of Rockaway Parkway became an electric trolley shuttle route.

The {{convert|25|acre|ha|adj=on}} Golden City Amusement Park opened in May 1907 at what is now Seaview Avenue, near Canarsie Pier.{{rp|47}} The owners hoped that the five-cent fare of the Canarsie Railroad would draw riders who would otherwise pay 10 cents to go to the Coney Island amusement area.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/04/05/106746188.pdf |title=Hermann Tells His Story.; Letter Books Destroyed in the Open and by His Direction. |date=April 5, 1907 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226102118/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/04/05/106746188.pdf |archive-date=February 26, 2018 |url-status=live}} Golden City cost $1 million to build{{cite news |title='Golden City' Built in Canarsie Park |page=40 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |date=May 19, 1907 |url=http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/54486304/?terms=golden%2Bcity%2Bamusement%2Bpark |access-date=January 28, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190522/http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/54486304/?terms=golden%2Bcity%2Bamusement%2Bpark |archive-date=January 28, 2018 |df=mdy-all}} and included a miniature railroad, a dance hall, a roller skating rink, and a roller coaster.{{rp|47}} There was also a {{convert|300|ft|m|-long|adj=mid}} wooden shorefront promenade and a 2,500-seat theater with 7,000 electric lights.{{cite news |title=A New Dreamland at Coney Island; Many Additional Attractions and 1,000,000 Lights Mark 4th Season's Opening. |work=The New York Times |date=May 19, 1907 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/05/19/106753426.pdf |access-date=January 28, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226102118/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/05/19/106753426.pdf |archive-date=February 26, 2018 |df=mdy-all}} The buildings were adorned with silver and gold. Part of Golden City's appeal was that it was easily accessible from Manhattan via the elevated.{{cite web |last=Radow |first=Craig |title=The Coney Island of Canarsie |website=The New York Times |date=July 1, 2007 |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/nyregion/thecity/01gold.html |access-date=January 24, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125074648/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/nyregion/thecity/01gold.html |archive-date=January 25, 2018}} In August of that year, the Golden City Construction was leased to the Canarsie Amusement Company, who planned to make the park one of the world's largest.{{cite news |title=Golden City Changes Hands.; Plan to Make It One of the Largest Amusement Resorts In the World. |work=The New York Times |date=August 1, 1907 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/08/01/106759875.pdf |access-date=January 28, 2018 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081342/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/08/01/106759875.pdf |url-status=live}} In 1909, the park was severely damaged by a fire, which also destroyed two hotels.{{cite news |title=$250,000 Canarsie Fire; Golden City Park Resort and Two Hotels Destroyed. |work=The New York Times |date=May 9, 1909 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/05/09/101028570.pdf |access-date=January 28, 2018 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081342/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/05/09/101028570.pdf |url-status=live}} The park was completely rebuilt for the next season.{{rp|48}}

Murphy's Carousel was created in 1912 by the Stein and Goldstein Artistic Carousell Company of Brooklyn and installed in Golden City Park. A writer for The New York Times later noted that "the horses were carved in Coney Island style, which eschewed the look of docile ponies and prancing fillies and produced much more muscular, ferocious creatures with bared teeth and heads often lifted in motion."{{cite news |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/nyregion/01licaro.html |date=May 1, 2005 |title=A Carousel Becomes the Brass Ring |last=Toy |first=Vivian S. |access-date=January 24, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081410/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/nyregion/a-carousel-becomes-the-brass-ring.html |url-status=live}}

After the end of World War I, the New York City Department of Docks started renting piers along the Canarsie shore. These piers were transformed into summer vacation houses, boardwalks, industrial buildings, railroads, and piers, among other purposes. Some piers were used by boat yards, clubs, and builders, while other piers were rented for an expansion of Golden City Park.{{rp|47}}

By the 20th century, the fishing industry started to decline, since pollution had contaminated the oysters that occupied the bay.{{Cite web |url=http://gothamist.com/2016/09/06/50000_oysters_installed_in_jamaica.php#photo-1 |website=Gothamist |title=10,000 Oysters Are Being Installed In Jamaica Bay, With Beds Made From Recycled Toilets |first=Jen |last=Chung |date=September 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909021942/http://gothamist.com/2016/09/06/50000_oysters_installed_in_jamaica.php |archive-date=September 9, 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=January 24, 2018}}{{cite web |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/nyregion/jamaica-bay-a-wild-place-on-the-edge-of-change.html |title=Jamaica Bay, a Wild Place on the Edge of Change |first=Alan |last=Feuer |date=July 29, 2011 |access-date=January 24, 2018 |work=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630170531/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/nyregion/jamaica-bay-a-wild-place-on-the-edge-of-change.html |archive-date=June 30, 2017}} The shellfish in the bay began showing signs of chemical contamination in 1904,{{rp|47}} when an outbreak of typhoid fever was linked to a catch of shellfish in Inwood, New York, another town on the Jamaica Bay shore.{{rp|152}} In 1912, a typhoid outbreak in upstate Goshen, New York, was attributed to a banquet where Jamaica Bay oysters were served.{{cite news |title=Jamaica Bay Oysters Blamed for Typhoid Epidemics |work=The New York Times |date=October 6, 1912 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/10/06/100378638.pdf |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081343/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/10/06/100378638.pdf |url-status=live}} In 1915, Canarsie itself was affected when 27 residents contracted typhoid from that year's shellfish catch.{{cite book |last=Hendrick |first=D.M. |title=Jamaica Bay |publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated |series=Images of America |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-4396-1802-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZQYeX0O0L0C&pg=PT152 |language=en |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-date=July 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704223722/https://books.google.com/books?id=LZQYeX0O0L0C&pg=PT152 |url-status=live}}{{rp|152}} Another 100 cases of gastroenteritis were traced to that year's shellfish catch. By 1917, an estimated {{convert|50,000,000|gal|L}} of sewage per day was being discharged into the bay.{{rp|65}} The whole industry was shuttered in 1921 because too much of the shellfish population had been infected.{{rp|47}}{{rp|152}}

The shoreline was further altered in 1926 through the construction of Canarsie Pier, a {{convert|250|yd|m|adj=mid|-long}} dock with a {{convert|300|yd|m|adj=mid|-wide}} base.{{rp|47}} The pier was built as part of the greater improvement project for Jamaica Bay, wherein channels were being dredged in an effort to turn the bay into a large seaport. This was tied to improvement projects at Mill and Barren islands.{{cite news |url=http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/58203985/ |title=City Acquires $10,000,000 Jamaica Bay Tract Without a Penny of Cost to Itself |last=Shepard |first=Charles E. |date=December 29, 1926 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |access-date=January 28, 2018 |page=10 |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004354/http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/58203985/ |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} This brought new industrial tenants along the Jamaica Bay shore, including an asphalt company and a construction company. The first industrial export from Canarsie Pier, a 500-ton shipment of scrap metal, departed in 1933.{{rp|48}} Planners also wanted to create a spur of the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch south to Flatlands, with two branches to Canarsie and Mill Basin.{{rp|71}} In January 1931, the New York City Board of Estimate approved a plan to build railroads on both sides of Paerdegat Basin, connecting the LIRR to Canarsie Pier on the east and to Floyd Bennett Field on the west.{{cite news |title=Jamaica Bay Plan Approved by City |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/01/31/98319401.pdf |access-date=April 3, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 31, 1931 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081344/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/01/31/98319401.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} Ultimately, Robert Moses, the New York City Parks Commissioner at the time, disapproved of the project.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/29/432211042.pdf |title=Jamaica Bay to Be Play Area; Its 18,000 Acres of Water and Marshland Are Being Cleaned Up and Developed for Swimming, Boating and Fishing |date=June 29, 1941 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 22, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081344/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/29/432211042.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} He moved to transform the bay into a city park instead.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/05/13/84565470.pdf |title=City Clears Way for Jamaica Park; Board Adopts Maps, Sets Time for Public Hearing on Huge Area on Waterfront |date=May 13, 1949 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 22, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081344/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/05/13/84565470.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}}

The Canarsie Railroad was converted to the Canarsie subway line in 1928, providing direct access to Manhattan.{{rp|864}}{{cite news |title=Canarsie Subway Will Open Today; To Provide Service From Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, to Jamaica Bay. |work=The New York Times |date=July 14, 1928 |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/07/14/94150350.pdf |access-date=January 27, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081403/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/07/14/94150350.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} After the subway line opened, officials began calling for a new ferry service between Canarsie and Rockaway Beach.{{cite news |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/59879917/ |title=Canarsie Rockaway Ferry Urged By Civics |date=April 18, 1928 |access-date=January 27, 2018 |page=7 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190517/https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/59879917/ |archive-date=January 28, 2018}} The subway line was also supposed to help improve access to the proposed seaport, although the seaport was ultimately not built. The area remained a relatively remote outpost through the 1920s. Southern Italian immigrants, along with Jews, soon settled in the area.{{cite web |url=http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2004-12-23/Religion/Jewish_Community_Shrinking_But_Surviving.html |title=Jewish Community Shrinking, But Surviving |work=Canarsie Courier |date=December 23, 2004 |access-date=April 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310192654/http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2004-12-23/Religion/Jewish_Community_Shrinking_But_Surviving.html |archive-date=March 10, 2010}}

Golden City was severely damaged by another fire in January 1934,{{rp|201}} which destroyed fifteen buildings and caused $60,000 worth of damage.{{cite news |title=2 Brooklyn Fires Sweep Wide AreaS; 15 Canarsie Buildings and 12 Flatbush Homes Destroyed – Loss Put at $160,000. |work=The New York Times |date=January 30, 1934 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/01/30/95031086.pdf |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081403/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/01/30/95031086.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} This time, the amusement park's operators decided not to rebuild, and the area spent its last days as a boat dock.{{rp|48}} In 1938, the city moved to acquire Golden City's land, as well as improve sewage facilities within Canarsie. The hope was that the new Belt Parkway would attract drivers to Golden City from all over the metropolitan area.{{cite news |title=See Canarsie Taking Place in Limelight |page=8 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |date=April 10, 1938 |url=http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52673031/ |access-date=January 28, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004725/http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52673031/ |archive-date=January 29, 2018 |df=mdy-all}} This did not happen, mainly because Robert Moses wanted to build the parkway through the amusement park.{{cite news |title=Moses Asks Ban on Canarsie Park at Belt Highway |page=2 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |date=October 19, 1938 |url=http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52643609/ |access-date=January 28, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004812/http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52643609/ |archive-date=January 29, 2018 |df=mdy-all}} Golden City was demolished in 1939 to make way for the Belt Parkway. In the spring of 1940,{{cite web |url=http://www.cradleofaviation.org/plan_your_visit/nunleys_carousel.html |website=Cradle of Aviation Museum |access-date=August 26, 2014 |title=Nunley's Carousel |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820192804/http://www.cradleofaviation.org/plan_your_visit/nunleys_carousel.html |archive-date=August 20, 2014}} when the Belt Parkway was built through the area, the carousel was moved to Baldwin, on the border abutting Freeport, on Long Island. The Works Progress Administration, in conjunction with the city's Departments of Parks and Docks, built a recreation building on Canarsie Pier in 1941.{{rp|48}}File:Canarsie bungalows (4847150771).jpg

Ferry service at Canarsie Pier also withered away after the opening of the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge in 1937, which connected Brooklyn to the Rockaways directly.{{cite web |url=http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2015-10-08/Other_News/Brooklyn_Beep_Has_More_Talks_About_Canarsie_Pier_F.html |title=canarsiecourier.com, Brooklyn Beep Has More Talks About Canarsie Pier Ferry Service, By Dara Mormile, Aug. 2015 |access-date=January 24, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107010303/http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2015-10-08/Other_News/Brooklyn_Beep_Has_More_Talks_About_Canarsie_Pier_F.html |archive-date=November 7, 2017}} In 1939, the WPA Guide to New York City mentioned that Canarsie was a "sparsely settled community located on dispiriting flatlands". The Guide further described the burned-down amusement park, the ramshackle shacks, and Canarsie's "weedy lots and small truck farms cultivated by Italians". The book stated that riders on the Canarsie Pier trolley could see "great stenches of dump and marsh" interspersed between the "unkempt gardens of run-down houses" that the trolley's route adjoined.{{cite fednyc |page=502}} Until 1939, dozens of disused trolley cars from around the city were dumped into a {{convert|7|acre|ha|adj=on}}, {{convert|35|ft|m|-deep|adj=mid}} lake in Canarsie.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/08/archives/canarsie-is-the-end-of-the-line-for-trollyes-canarise-end-of-the.html |title=Canarsie Is the End of the Line for Trolleys |last=Gordon |first=David |date=April 8, 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131080833/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/08/archives/canarsie-is-the-end-of-the-line-for-trollyes-canarise-end-of-the.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}} The Canarsie Pier trolley route was discontinued in 1942 and was replaced by the B42 streetcar (later bus) route, despite residents' protests.{{cite news |title=Trolleys Back on Gates, 3d Ave Lines Soon |date=November 25, 1942 |page=16 |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52875122 |access-date=January 27, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205184510/http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52875122/ |archive-date=February 5, 2018}} The right-of-way of the old Canarsie Pier trolley was abandoned.{{cite book |author=Branford Electric Railway Association |title=Brooklyn Streetcars |publisher=Arcadia Pub. |series=Images of America: a history of American life in images and texts |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7385-5761-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IduHf5I6KLsC&pg=PA126 |language=en |access-date=February 4, 2018 |page=126 |archive-date=July 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704211009/https://books.google.com/books?id=IduHf5I6KLsC&pg=PA126 |url-status=live}}

In 1940, plans for a 14,000-seat arena in Canarsie were filed.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/28/113379267.pdf |title=Brooklyn to Get New Sports Arena; Plans Are Filed for $850,000 Structure Seating 14,000 in Canarsie Section |date=August 28, 1940 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081403/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/28/113379267.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} This arena was apparently not built for several decades, because in 1974, many Canarsie residents announced their opposition to a proposed 15,000-seat arena in Brooklyn. One of the proposed sites of the arena was in Canarsie.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/05/archives/residents-oppose-a-brooklyn-arena.html |title=Residents Oppose a Brooklyn Arena |date=December 5, 1974 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131023949/http://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/05/archives/residents-oppose-a-brooklyn-arena.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}}

In 1941, the city announced that a new sewage plant would be built in Canarsie in order to reduce the amount of raw sewage going in Jamaica Bay.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/12/17/87698834.pdf |title=Big Disposal Plant to Rise in Brooklyn; Canarsie Sewage Treating Unit to Cost $1,000,000 |date=December 17, 1941 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081404/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/12/17/87698834.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}}

Canarsie only saw large residential development after World War II. Much of the area's residential buildings were built from this post-war era up until the 1970s.{{Cite journal |last=Van Hooreweghe |first=Kristen L. |date=2012 |title=The Creeks, Beaches, and Bay of the Jamaica Bay Estuary: The Importance of Place in Cultivating Relationships to Nature |url=http://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1815 |journal=CUNY Academic Works |publisher=Graduate Center, CUNY |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403212725/http://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1815/ |archive-date=April 3, 2017}}{{Rp|140}} Marshland in the area was filled in.{{rp|201}} Due to the large shortage of housing in New York City after the war, the city announced the construction of more than a thousand Quonset huts for veterans along the Jamaica Bay shore.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/01/06/305576052.pdf |title=1,345 Huts to Ease Housing Need Here; FPHA Asks for Quonset Units From Davisville Colony, as Result of Mayor's Plea |date=January 6, 1946 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081404/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/01/06/305576052.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} The first huts were delivered in February 1946,{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/02/19/93055897.pdf |title=LST Unloads Quonset Huts Here To Provide Housing for Veterans; |date=February 19, 1946 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081404/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/02/19/93055897.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} and they were ready for occupancy by June of that year.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/06/19/105207516.pdf |title=Quonset Hut Apartments To Be Opened Tomorrow |date=June 19, 1946 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081404/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/06/19/105207516.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}}

Starting in the 1950s, a series of suburban waterfront communities were being rapidly developed in Southeast Brooklyn, including in present-day Bergen Beach, Canarsie, and Mill Basin. Most of the new residents were whites who were moving out of neighborhoods such as East New York and Brownsville, which were gaining more black residents.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/28/archives/new-jerjey-pages-canarsie-fears-values-are-beginning-to-erode.html |title=Canarsie Fears Values Are Beginning to Erode |last=Arnold |first=Martin |date=October 28, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130205039/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/28/archives/new-jerjey-pages-canarsie-fears-values-are-beginning-to-erode.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} In August 1951, work started on the Breukelen Houses, a 1,600-unit New York City Housing Authority development between East 103rd and East 105th Streets.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/svc/tmach/v1/refer?pdf=true&res=9D03E4DA1F38E53ABC4952DFBE66838A649EDE |title=2 Ceremonies Mark Brooklyn Housing; Cashmore Lays Cornerstone for 1,595-Family Development on Old Canarsie Marshes |date=August 11, 1951 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081508/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/08/11/93195361.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} The development was completed in October 1952.{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/bklynbreukelen.shtml |title=NYCHA Housing Developments |publisher=New York City Housing Authority |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524082216/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/bklynbreukelen.shtml |archive-date=May 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 15, 2008}} The Bayview Houses, another NYCHA development, started construction in 1954{{cite news |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25205%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201954%2520Grayscale%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201954%2520%2520Grayscale%2520-%25201023.pdf |title=Housing Authority To OK Low Bid for Canarsie Project |date=February 10, 1954 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |access-date=January 28, 2018 |page=6 |via=Fultonhistory.com |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081409/https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201954%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201954%20%20Grayscale%20-%201023.pdf |url-status=live}} and opened in 1955.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/svc/tmach/v1/refer?pdf=true&res=9901E2D8103DEE3BBC4A53DFBF66838D649EDE |title=Canarsie Homes Add to Tax Levy; Seaview Village Should Yield $480,000 to City Next Year |date=September 2, 1956 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081409/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/09/02/88467545.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} The latter NYCHA development included a shopping center.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/svc/tmach/v1/refer?pdf=true&res=9D0CE0DC163CE63ABC4851DFB366838D649EDE |title=STORES FOR BROOKLYN; Retail Center Will Serve Two Housing Projects |date=May 20, 1956 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018}}

Houses were also constructed by private developers, but due to zoning laws, these residences were limited to three stories high. Vacant lots remained, but they were being very quickly developed at the time. Some lots along the Paerdegat Basin shore remained undeveloped through the 1960s. One plot, in particular, was supposed to become a public housing development for lower- and middle-class families. However, the plot was privately owned, and residents of nearby houses wanted to see a private developer build two-story middle-class detached houses at that location.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/09/big-canarsie-tract-freed-for-housing.html |title=Big Canarsie Tract Freed for Housing |date=February 9, 1964 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204259/http://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/09/big-canarsie-tract-freed-for-housing.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} This plot ultimately became a middle-income housing development with units for 6,000 families, built by the city under the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/28/archives/project-for-6000-families-approved-for-canarsie-site-canarsie.html |title=Project for 6,000 Families Approved for Canarsie Site |date=June 28, 1967 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612182927/https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/28/archives/project-for-6000-families-approved-for-canarsie-site-canarsie.html |url-status=live}}

In conjunction with this development, the federal and city governments each awarded hundreds of thousands of money toward improving parks and beaches in Canarsie. The New York Times predicted that Canarsie could become "the next Jones Beach", a seaside resort of kinds. It was expected that there would be 5,000 more school-aged children living in Canarsie, so public and parochial schools were expanded as well. From 1950 to 1955, Canarsie's population grew from 3,500 to 4,500. By 1963, a new 69th Precinct building for the New York City Police Department had to be constructed to accommodate the growing population.{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/11/28/89608315.pdf |title=A 'Suburb' Grows in Marshes Here; Bergen Beach, Mill Basin and Canarsie Sections of Brooklyn Transformed |date=November 28, 1963 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 17, 2018 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Many young families moved to Canarsie, and Canarsie High School was built to handle the newcomers. Canarsie High School opened in 1964.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/27/school-incidents-disturb-canarsie.html |title=School Incidents Disturb Canarsie |date=September 27, 1964 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204917/http://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/27/school-incidents-disturb-canarsie.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}}

File:PennAvStrCity.jpg, a 1970s-era development east of Canarsie]]

The city proposed the construction of Flatlands Industrial Park, an industrial park, in Canarsie in 1959.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/svc/tmach/v1/refer?res=940CE1D8143DE73ABC4850DFB6678382649EDE&pdf=true |title=Big Factory Park Outlined to City; 95 Million Industrial Area for Brooklyn Envisioned in Engineers' Study |last=Bennett |first=Charles G. |date=October 30, 1959 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018}} The city took over the project after a previous attempt by a private developer had been canceled in 1958 due to a lack of tenants.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/10/07/119111499.pdf |title=Sponsor Gives Up Industrial Park; Privately Backed Project in Brooklyn Reported Unable to Get Enough Tenantse |date=October 7, 1960 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018}} The industrial park was to be located on a {{Convert|93|acre|ha|adj=on}} plot{{Cite journal |last=Rosselli |first=Albert T. |date=1967 |title=Planning the Flatlands Urban Industrial Park |url=http://cedb.asce.org/CEDBsearch/record.jsp?dockey=0014774 |journal=Journal of the Urban Planning and Development Division |volume=93 |issue=1 |pages=29–40 |doi=10.1061/JUPDAJ.0000026 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141627/http://cedb.asce.org/CEDBsearch/record.jsp?dockey=0014774 |archive-date=January 29, 2018|url-access=subscription }} between East 99th and 108th Streets between Farragut Road and the Long Island Rail Road.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/06/archives/flatlands-industrial-park-year-old-making-strides-flatlands-park.html |title=Flatlands Industrial Park, Year Old, Making Strides |last=Fowler |first=Glenn |date=September 6, 1970 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129195419/http://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/06/archives/flatlands-industrial-park-year-old-making-strides-flatlands-park.html |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} Permission to clear the land was granted in 1962.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/10/09/121582141.pdf |title=Industrial Park Cleared for City; Supreme Court Bars Review of Flatlands Condemnation |date=October 9, 1962 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018}} East Brooklyn residents wished to see an educational complex on the site instead,{{cite news |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520The%2520World%2520Telegram%2520and%2520Sun%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520The%2520World%2520Telegram%2520and%2520Sun%25201966%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520The%2520World%2520Telegram%2520and%2520Sun%25201966%2520a%2520-%25201305.pdf |title=Brownsville Opposes a New JHS |last=Samuels |first=Robert |date=February 22, 1966 |work=Brooklyn World-Telegram |access-date=January 28, 2018 |page=B1 |via=Fultonhistory.com}} on the grounds that not building an educational complex would prolong the school segregation prevalent in Eastern Brooklyn.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/06/21/82810438.pdf |title=7 School Plans Protested Here; Brooklyn Group Says They Will Extend Segregation |date=June 21, 1966 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018}} The New York City Department of City Planning approved the plan anyway in 1965. The city added {{Convert|6.5|acre|ha}} of land to the proposed industrial area by deleting plans for the side streets that were supposed to run through the area.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/svc/tmach/v1/refer?pdf=true&res=9E06EFDD103CE733A25753C2A96E9C946491D6CF |title=An Industrial Park for Brooklyn Nears Reality With New Layout |date=August 20, 1965 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018}} These delays held up construction for nine years: in March 1966, an aide to Mayor John Lindsay reported that "not one spadeful of dirt" had been excavated on the site.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/30/284427392.pdf |title=Industrial Park Spelled D-U-M-P; Flatlands-Canarsie Project Untouched After 5 Years |date=March 30, 1966 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081950/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/30/284427392.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} Construction on the project started in summer 1966,{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/06/19/82461650.pdf |title=Industrial Park Near in Brooklyn; Developer of 96-Acre Tract Hopes to Break Ground in July for Project |date=June 19, 1966 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081950/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/06/19/82461650.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} and when the Flatlands Industrial Park opened in 1969, it became the city's first publicly sponsored industrial complex.

Other development in Canarsie around this time included the middle-income Starrett City complex east of Fresh Creek.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/21/archives/more-are-being-built-but-still-more-decaying-apartments.html |title=Apartments |date=October 21, 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145618/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/21/archives/more-are-being-built-but-still-more-decaying-apartments.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} The complex is located east of Fresh Creek between Belt Parkway and Vandalia Avenue.{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/16/archives/housing-for-24000-begun-in-brooklyn.html |title=Housing for 24,000 Begun in Brooklyn |last1=Horsley |first1=Carter B. |date=July 16, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 14, 2017 |pages=46 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145706/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/16/archives/housing-for-24000-begun-in-brooklyn.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} In 1962, the California-based Thompson–Starrett Co. bought {{Convert|130|acre|ha}} of land, upon which they proposed to construct apartment buildings.{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/02/01/94097949.pdf |title=Land Deal in Brooklyn; 6 Million Paid for 130 Acres as Apartment Site |date=February 1, 1962 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 14, 2017 |page=61 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081951/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/02/01/94097949.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} However, this did not occur due to a lack of funds, and the land was sold to a consortium of investors.{{cite magazine |last=Hellman |first=Peter |date=October 17, 1988 |title=A Dilemma Grows in Brooklyn: Starrett City Fights to Keep Its Quotas and Its Racial Mix |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LuUCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55 |magazine=New York |volume=21 |issue=41 |pages=54–58 |issn=0028-7369 |access-date=December 13, 2017 |archive-date=July 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708015428/https://books.google.com/books?id=LuUCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55 |url-status=live}} The project's new developers were a joint venture by the Starrett Corporation and the National Kinney Corporation, who renamed the project "Starrett City".{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/13/archives/planners-preparing-for-starrett-citys-tenants-bringing-a-new-city.html |title=Planners Preparing for Starrett City's Tenants |last1=Thomas |first1=Robert Jr. |date=October 13, 1974 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 14, 2017 |page=129 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214125012/http://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/13/archives/planners-preparing-for-starrett-citys-tenants-bringing-a-new-city.html |archive-date=December 14, 2017}} In 1967, the United Housing Foundation (UHF) announced a plan to construct a housing development with similarities to Co-op City in the Bronx. The UHF left the project in 1972, by which time part of Starrett City had already been built. Starrett City was dedicated in October 1974,{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/10/14/80428386.pdf |title=5,881 Unit Project is Dedicated Here; Became and Wilson Attend Ceremony at Starrett City in the Canarsie Section |last1=Lichtenstein |first1=Grace |date=October 14, 1974 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081951/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/10/14/80428386.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} and the first residents started moving in by the end of the year.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/27/archives/customer-vs-moving-company-curbside-mediators-try-to-help.html |title=Customer Vs. Moving Company: Curbside Mediators Try to Help |date=December 27, 1974 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131023627/http://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/27/archives/customer-vs-moving-company-curbside-mediators-try-to-help.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}} At the time of opening, it had 5,881 units in 46 eleven- to twenty-story buildings.

File:Canarsie High jeh.JPG, which was shuttered for three days in 1969 due to racial tensions]]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, parents of white students protested against the New York City Department of Education's efforts to desegregate its District 18, which comprised schools in Canarsie and East Flatbush, by "busing" minority pupils into Canarsie schools. Many of the minority students were pupils from majority-black Brownsville, which bordered Canarsie to the north but was in a different school district.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/12/archives/classes-resume-smoothly-in-all-but-two-city-schools-classes-open.html |title=Classes Resume Smoothly In All But Two City Schools |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=September 12, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204430/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/12/archives/classes-resume-smoothly-in-all-but-two-city-schools-classes-open.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} The racial tensions began in 1964, when the NYCDOE zoned some Brownsville students to Canarsie High School. In 1969, a fight between a white student and a black student at Canarsie High School caused the school to be closed down for three days.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/05/archives/racially-troubled-canarsie-school-is-tense-as-classes-resume.html |title=Racially Troubled Canarsie School Is Tense as Classes Resume |date=March 5, 1969 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612210053/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/05/archives/racially-troubled-canarsie-school-is-tense-as-classes-resume.html |url-status=live}} South Shore High School opened in 1970, albeit in a physically incomplete state: many rooms did not have furniture, plumbing, or public announcement systems until the middle of the school year.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/27/archives/city-pilot-school-far-from-success-canarsie-institution-faces-an.html |title=City Pilot School Far from Success |last=Ruder |first=Leonard |date=June 27, 1971 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145557/http://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/27/archives/city-pilot-school-far-from-success-canarsie-institution-faces-an.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} Major conflicts between white and black students occurred in September 1970{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/19/archives/brooklyn-school-seeks-racial-accord.html |title=Brooklyn School Seeks Racial Accord |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=September 19, 1970 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204232/http://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/19/archives/brooklyn-school-seeks-racial-accord.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} and April 1971.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/30/archives/racial-outbreak-at-south-shore-high-school-in-brooklyn-is-traced-to.html |title=Racial Outbreak at South Shore High School in Brooklyn Is Traced to Earlier Tensions |last=Arnold |first=Martin |date=April 30, 1971 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204359/http://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/30/archives/racial-outbreak-at-south-shore-high-school-in-brooklyn-is-traced-to.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} By the end of its first year, the principal was stepping down, and a coalition called "Friends of South Shore" had formed to protest the lack of resources or opportunities available at that school.

The 1972–1973 school year was a tumultuous one for Canarsie. On September 12, 1972, the first day of the school year, District 18 officials refused to enroll approximately 90 students from Brownsville into IS 285, a school in East Flatbush. This change came after IS 285 had been enrolling Brownsville students for several years. Brownsville parents had already been hesitant to enroll their students into schools in Canarsie due to large opposition there.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/26/archives/brooklyn-school-shut-to-avoid-blackwhite-parent-showdown.html |title=Brooklyn School Shut to Avoid Black-White Parent Showdown |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=September 26, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204418/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/26/archives/brooklyn-school-shut-to-avoid-blackwhite-parent-showdown.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} By the start of October, these students had still not been able to start school.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/01/archives/the-issues-fear-clouds-brooklyn-school-dispute-issues.html |title=The Issues |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=October 1, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131080933/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/01/archives/the-issues-fear-clouds-brooklyn-school-dispute-issues.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}} On October 14, the NYCDOE came up with a solution regarding approximately 40 of these students: send eleven to IS 285, and enroll the rest within IS 211 in Canarsie.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/14/archives/40-black-pupils-reassigned-here-15-adults-protesting-change-seized.html |title=40 Black Pupils Reassigned Here |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=October 14, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204230/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/14/archives/40-black-pupils-reassigned-here-15-adults-protesting-change-seized.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} (The number of Brownsville students enrolled in IS 211 was variously given as either 29 or 31.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/20/archives/threat-of-a-writ-puts-end-to-canarsie-parent-sitin.html |title=Threat of a Writ Puts End To Canarsie Parent Sit-In |last=Peterson |first=Iver |date=October 20, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=September 26, 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926181927/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/20/archives/threat-of-a-writ-puts-end-to-canarsie-parent-sitin.html |archive-date=September 26, 2024}} That number later rose to 32.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/10/27/91353381.pdf |title=Board Reverses Scribner, Orders 32 Into J.H.S. 211; Minority Pupils Are Upheld Despite Parental Protests That Shut the School |date=October 27, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081951/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/10/27/91353381.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}}) In response, on October 17, hundreds of white parents from Canarsie showed up to protest outside IS 211 and IS 267. They announced their intention to keep protesting unless the black students were reassigned to another school.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/17/archives/protests-by-white-parents-shut-2-canarsie-schools-protests-by-white.html |title=Protests by White Parents Shut 2 Canarsie Schools |last=Ruder |first=Leonard |date=October 17, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204229/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/17/archives/protests-by-white-parents-shut-2-canarsie-schools-protests-by-white.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} Because the parents' protests blocked these schools' entrances, the schools were closed for the rest of that day.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/10/17/90726338.pdf |title=Protests by White Parents Shut 2 Canarsie Schools; Protests by White Parents Force the Closing of 2 Schools in Canarsie Section |date=October 17, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081951/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/10/17/90726338.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} These protests went on for three days until the NYCDOE threatened a writ of court action against these parents.

The NYCDOE unsuccessfully attempted to broker a compromise between parents in Brownsville and Canarsie.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/22/archives/compromise-plan-on-canarsie-fails-offer-of-another-school-is.html |title=Compromise Plan on Can Arsie Fails |last=Smothers |first=Ronald |date=October 22, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204345/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/22/archives/compromise-plan-on-canarsie-fails-offer-of-another-school-is.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} On October 24, 1972, NYCDOE Chairman Harvey B. Scribner withdrew enrollment for the Brownsville students who were going to IS 211.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/24/archives/new-jersey-pages-scribner-agrees-to-shift-31-black-pupils-in.html |title=Scribner Agrees to Shift 31 Black Pupils in Canarsie |last=Hanley |first=Robert |date=October 24, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204348/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/24/archives/new-jersey-pages-scribner-agrees-to-shift-31-black-pupils-in.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} The Brownsville parents brought their students to IS 211 the next day and started protesting outside the school.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/25/archives/parents-scuffle-at-school-doors-barred-to-blacks-canarsie.html |title=Parents Scuffle at School Doors Barred to Blacks |last=Smothers |first=Ronald |date=October 25, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204255/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/25/archives/parents-scuffle-at-school-doors-barred-to-blacks-canarsie.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} On October 26, the NYCDOE reversed Scribner's order, re-enrolling the black students from Brownsville. The same day, a police guard escorted 28 Brownsville students to their first day of classes at IS 211, amid a crowd of over 1,000 protesters. Of 10,000 students enrolled in Canarsie public schools, only 850 had gone to school on October 26.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/28/archives/black-pupils-enter-211-as-police-quell-disorder-28-from-brownsville.html |title=Black Pupils Enter 211 As Police Quell Disorder |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=October 28, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145638/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/28/archives/black-pupils-enter-211-as-police-quell-disorder-28-from-brownsville.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} Due to low attendance, six Canarsie schools were closed for that day.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/31/archives/parents-boycott-shuts-6-schools-in-canarsie-area-9000-pupils-miss.html |title=Parents Boycott Nits 6 Schools in Canarsie Area |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=October 31, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145629/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/31/archives/parents-boycott-shuts-6-schools-in-canarsie-area-9000-pupils-miss.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} By November 1, the fifth day of the boycott, the number of protesters had subsided, but the boycott was still ongoing.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/01/archives/eggs-and-rocks-thrown-as-boycott-at-canarsie-school-continues-eggs.html |title=Eggs and Rocks Thrown as Boycott at Canarsie School Continues |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=November 1, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145556/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/01/archives/eggs-and-rocks-thrown-as-boycott-at-canarsie-school-continues-eggs.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} The boycott was broken on November 10, twelve days after it started.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/10/archives/boycott-over-canarsie-pupils-are-eager-to-work.html |title=Boycott Over, Canarsie Pupils Are Eager to Work |date=November 10, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145645/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/10/archives/boycott-over-canarsie-pupils-are-eager-to-work.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}}{{cite news |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newpapers%20Disk2/Auburn%20NY%20Citizen%20Advertiser/Auburn%20NY%20Citizen%20Advertiser%201972.pdf/Newspaper%20Auburn%20NY%20Citizen%20Advertiser%201972%20-%204847.PDF |title=Canarsie schools; attendance near normal |last=Associated Press |date=November 9, 1972 |work=Auburn Citizen-Advertiser |access-date=January 29, 2018 |page=10 |via=Fultonhistory.com}}

As part of the terms to end the boycott, a new zoning plan for the area was ordered.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/04/archives/canarsie-board-pledges-to-devise-rezoning-plan-canarsie-board-vows.html |title=Canarsie Board Pledges To Devise Rezoning Plan |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=November 4, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145611/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/04/archives/canarsie-board-pledges-to-devise-rezoning-plan-canarsie-board-vows.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} The new plan, released on December 6,{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/12/06/93423887.pdf |title=Canarsie Devises New Zoning Plan; Would Bar Tilden Children From Junior Highs in '75 |date=December 6, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081952/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/12/06/93423887.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live}} was also controversial because it involved rezoning many black students.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/12/archives/canarsie-hearing-becomes-melee-as-tempers-flare-on-zone-issue.html |title=Canarsie Hearing Becomes Melee As Tempers Flare on Zone Issue |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=December 12, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145632/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/12/archives/canarsie-hearing-becomes-melee-as-tempers-flare-on-zone-issue.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} A second new plan was then ordered.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/13/archives/scribner-orders-a-new-canarsie-schoolzoning-plan.html |title=Scribner Orders a New Canarsie School-Zoning Plan |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=December 13, 1972 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145558/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/13/archives/scribner-orders-a-new-canarsie-schoolzoning-plan.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} Many Canarsie parents, who complained that it was taking too long to come up with a new zoning plan, initiated a second boycott on March 1, 1973.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/01/archives/canarsie-school-boycott-reported-voted-by-parents.html |title=Canarsie School Boycott Reported Voted by Parents |date=March 1, 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204257/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/01/archives/canarsie-school-boycott-reported-voted-by-parents.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} This boycott spread to a school in Mill Basin,{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/07/archives/mill-basin-supports-canarsie-boycott-court-halts-education-board.html |title=Mill Basin Supports Canarsie Boycott; Court Halts Education Board Hearing |last=Buder |first=Leonard |date=March 7, 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145609/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/07/archives/mill-basin-supports-canarsie-boycott-court-halts-education-board.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} but a similar one in Gravesend was unsuccessful.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/13/archives/attempt-to-widen-canarsie-boycott-of-schools-fails.html |title=Attempt to Widen Canarsie Boycott Of Schools Fails |date=March 13, 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204236/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/13/archives/attempt-to-widen-canarsie-boycott-of-schools-fails.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} The boycott ended on April 1, after parents agreed almost unanimously to prohibit any more Brownsville students from enrolling in Canarsie schools. Students who were already enrolled were allowed to stay until they graduated.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/02/archives/school-boycott-ending-in-canarsie-scribner-ruling-upset-boycott-cut.html |title=School Boycott Ending in Canarsie |last=Smothers |first=Ronald |date=April 2, 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145605/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/02/archives/school-boycott-ending-in-canarsie-scribner-ruling-upset-boycott-cut.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} In total, white students boycotted their schools for seven weeks of the 1972–1973 school year.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxpzsG8iA0UC |title=Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism |last=Rieder |first=Jonathan |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-674-04274-2 |access-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-date=July 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704050154/https://books.google.com/books?id=XxpzsG8iA0UC |url-status=live}}{{Rp|2}} In 1978, a NYCDOE integration plan was tentatively approved by the state. Black students from Brownsville could enroll in Canarsie schools as long as they did not make up a majority of the student population there.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/17/archives/brooklyn-school-integration-plan-is-facing-a-fight.html |title=Brooklyn School Integration Plan Is Facing a Fight |last=Oelsner |first=Lesley |date=1978 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131080828/http://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/17/archives/brooklyn-school-integration-plan-is-facing-a-fight.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}}

Of the 80,000 Canarsie residents in 1972, about 2.5% were black. Canarsie's black residents were mostly concentrated in the NYCHA developments, which were integrated with the detached houses in the rest of the neighborhood. The conflict was compared to the Little Rock Nine controversy in 1957, where presidential intervention had been required in order to integrate nine black students into a majority-white school.{{Rp|2}} One writer described the Canarsie school conflict as a time when white residents felt that "things began to go awry".{{Rp|1}} The conflict marked the beginning of white Canarsie residents' shift from liberalism to conservatism.{{Rp|7}} By 1978, Canarsie was characterized as "a conservative, middle-class Jewish and Italian section of Brooklyn".{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/05/archives/canarsie-residents-reject-a-new-park-at-budget-hearing-33-of-34.html |title=Canarsie Residents Reject a New Park At Budget Hearing |last=Kifner |first=John |date=May 5, 1978 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131023901/http://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/05/archives/canarsie-residents-reject-a-new-park-at-budget-hearing-33-of-34.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}} The elected leadership of District 18 became ethnically disproportionate to the student body: by 1983, most of the District 18 board members were white, even though 75% of the district's students were black.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/01/nyregion/old-divisions-evident-in-brooklyn-school-race.html |title=Old Divisions Evident in Brooklyn School Race |last=Lynn |first=Frank |date=May 1, 1983 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130205018/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/01/nyregion/old-divisions-evident-in-brooklyn-school-race.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} This disproportionate representation continued through 1994, when the mostly-white members of District 18 opposed a plan to split off several schools into a nearby district in order to increase the proportion of black votes in both districts.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/23/nyregion/neighborhood-report-canarsie-east-flatbush-school-district-redrawing-board.html |title=Neighborhood Report: Canarsie/East Flatbush; School District on Redrawing Board, and Tempers Flare |last=Steinhauer |first=Jennifer |date=October 23, 1994 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130205102/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/23/nyregion/neighborhood-report-canarsie-east-flatbush-school-district-redrawing-board.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} That plan was subsequently canceled.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/06/nyregion/neighborhood-report-canarsie-east-flatbush-black-white-issue-gray-area.html |title=Neighborhood Report: Canarsie/East Flatbush; Black-White Issue, Gray Area: Redistricting Plan Is Pulled |last=Steinhauer |first=Jennifer |date=November 6, 1994 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204629/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/06/nyregion/neighborhood-report-canarsie-east-flatbush-black-white-issue-gray-area.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}}

In 1989, construction commenced on the Seaview Estates condominiums. The project was characterized as Canarsie's first large new residential development in decades.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/30/realestate/postings-on-fresh-creek-basin-223-condos-for-canarsie.html |title=Postings: On Fresh Creek Basin; 223 Condos for Canarsie |last=Lyons |first=Richard D. |date=April 30, 1989 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204931/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/30/realestate/postings-on-fresh-creek-basin-223-condos-for-canarsie.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} The development opened in 2003.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31201311/ |title=Gated condos opening in B'klyn |date=June 27, 2003 |work=New York Daily News |access-date=May 3, 2019 |page=3 |via=newspapers.com {{open access}} |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081954/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31201311/gated-condos-opening-in-bklyn/ |url-status=live}}

In the 1980s, the white residents of Canarsie started moving away,{{rp|201}} and black residents started moving in. From 1980 to 1990, the proportion of Canarsie's population who was white dropped from 90% to 75%.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/nyregion/canarsie-s-long-held-racial-anxieties-resurface.html |title=Canarsie's Long-Held Racial Anxieties Resurface |date=August 4, 1991 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204611/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/nyregion/canarsie-s-long-held-racial-anxieties-resurface.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} Much of Canarsie's white population left for the suburbs of Staten Island, Queens, Long Island, and New Jersey, part of a national phenomenon referred to as "white flight".{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/31/books/they-drew-a-line.html |title=They Drew A Line |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 31, 1985 |access-date=March 28, 2013 |quote=Canarsie expanded during the 1950s and became a quasi-suburban homeowner community. Since then, however, more and more of the newcomers have been escaping older Brooklyn areas as they turned into black slums |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113215428/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/31/books/they-drew-a-line.html |archive-date=November 13, 2013}} This culminated in a spate of racial conflicts in 1991, where 14 racial-bias incidents were recorded within a month and a half.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/15/nyregion/white-canarsie-resident-charged-in-group-attack-on-a-black-man.html |title=White Canarsie Resident Charged In Group Attack on a Black Man |date=August 15, 1991 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204938/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/15/nyregion/white-canarsie-resident-charged-in-group-attack-on-a-black-man.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} These incidents were committed by both blacks against whites, and by whites against blacks. The black population of Canarsie rose from 10% in 1990 to 60% in 2000, with most of the new residents being Caribbean and West Indian immigrants.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/30/nyregion/voters-focus-on-better-schools-a-changing-canarsie-wants-mayor-to-ease-crowding.html |title=Voters Focus on Better Schools; A Changing Canarsie Wants Mayor to Ease Crowding |last=Christian |first=Nichole M. |date=August 30, 2001 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131025322/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/30/nyregion/voters-focus-on-better-schools-a-changing-canarsie-wants-mayor-to-ease-crowding.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}} By 2010, the neighborhood was 78% black, and between 47% and 60% of the total residents were immigrants from the Caribbean.{{rp|141}}

The late-2000s subprime mortgage crisis affected the 11236 zip code, which includes Canarsie and Flatlands, more than any other neighborhood in the city. The area had 1,930 subprime mortgages, the most of any city neighborhood; of these, twelve percent were facing foreclosure proceedings.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/realestate/12livi.html |title=Homey, but No Haven From Hard Times |last=Mooney |first=Jake |date=October 10, 2008 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106042657/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/realestate/12livi.html |archive-date=January 6, 2018}} During Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, the basements of many homes in Canarsie were flooded. By June 2013, more than 10% of the residential buildings within Canarsie's zip code, 11236, were being foreclosed upon.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/realestate/in-canarsie-a-coalition-of-the-tried-and-true.html |title=In Canarsie, a Coalition of the Tried-and-True |last=Gill |first=John Freeman |date=October 8, 2013 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130013900/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/realestate/in-canarsie-a-coalition-of-the-tried-and-true.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency started redrawing flood-risk maps in New York City to account for climate change. The original flood map in 1983 labeled 26 buildings under the FEMA "flood zone", but the new flood map proposed increasing that total to 5,000 buildings. Many area homeowners opposed the maps because they could not afford flood insurance if they were rezoned under the FEMA flood zone.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/nyregion/new-york-city-flood-maps-fema.html |title=In New York, Drawing Flood Maps Is a 'Game of Inches' |last=Chen |first=David W. |date=2018 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202080019/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/nyregion/new-york-city-flood-maps-fema.html |archive-date=February 2, 2018}}

File:Flatlands Av East 18 - Flatlands Av Williams Av 05.jpg in Canarsie]]

Canarsie is characterized as a working- to middle-class neighborhood. Canarsie's residences consist mainly of one- and two-family homes. Most houses are detached, unlike elsewhere in Brooklyn where townhouses are more common. The houses between East 105th and East 108th Streets south of Avenue L typically have backyards, lawns and similar styled suburbs which unlike its neighbors Bergen Beach and Mill Basin, have not changed since the 1950s, large houses dating to the 1910s and 1920s can be found north of Flatlands Avenue. Eastern Canarsie tends to have more dense concentrations of housing than western Canarsie, while the center of the neighborhood has very dense development. There are two large public housing developments, the Breuckelen Houses and the Bayview Houses, both operated by the New York City Housing Authority. Canarsie also contains a gated community, the Seaview Estates condominium complex, which has five buildings as well as its own tennis court and swimming pool.

Brooklyn Community District 18, which encompasses Canarsie and Flatlands, has a poverty rate of 10%, lower than the city's 20% overall poverty rate, and a homeownership rate of 60%, higher than the city's 30% overall homeownership rate.{{Cite web |url=http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/BK_18_11.pdf |title=Flatlands/Canarsie – BK 18 |date=2011 |publisher=Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130918134807/http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/BK_18_11.pdf |archive-date=September 18, 2013 |url-status=live |access-date=October 5, 2016}}

There are two shopping centers in Canarsie. One of them is Canarsie Plaza, located on Avenue D. Opened in 2011, the mall contains {{Convert|278000|ft2|m2}} of retail space.{{Cite news |url=http://www.nreionline.com/finance/cole-buys-brooklyn-s-canarsie-plaza-124m |title=Cole Buys Brooklyn's Canarsie Plaza for $124M |date=December 6, 2012 |work=National Real Estate Investor |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129195021/http://www.nreionline.com/finance/cole-buys-brooklyn-s-canarsie-plaza-124m |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} The Brooklyn Terminal Market is located adjacent to Canarsie Plaza, and sells horticultural items such as plants, trees, and fruits.

The Canarsie Cemetery is located at Remsen Avenue and Avenue K. It was owned by the Remsen family until 1888, when they sold it to the town of Flatlands. In 1898, the cemetery became part of New York City, who became the new owner of the cemetery. Over the next century, 6,400 corpses were interred at the Canarsie Cemetery, including Civil War and Spanish–American War veterans.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/02/nyregion/for-sale-in-canarsie-a-beloved-century-old-cemetery.html |title=For Sale in Canarsie: a Beloved Century-Old Cemetery |last=Morgan |first=Thomas |date=December 2, 1988 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141532/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/02/nyregion/for-sale-in-canarsie-a-beloved-century-old-cemetery.html |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} The city announced its intention to sell Canarsie Cemetery in 1982,{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/12/nyregion/follow-up-on-the-news-cemetery-for-sale.html |title=Follow-up on the News; Cemetery for Sale |last=Rothstein |first=Mervyn |date=September 12, 1982 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204711/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/12/nyregion/follow-up-on-the-news-cemetery-for-sale.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} but for more than 25 years, its efforts to sell were unsuccessful.{{Cite news |url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/who-wants-to-buy-a-cemetery/ |title=Who Wants to Buy a Cemetery? |last=Lee |first=Jennifer 8. |work=City Room |date=May 20, 2009 |access-date=January 30, 2018 |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130205032/https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/who-wants-to-buy-a-cemetery/ |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} Cypress Hills, the operator of another cemetery straddling Brooklyn and Queens, purchased Canarsie Cemetery in 2010. By that time, there had been 8,000 interments, with space for 6,000 more corpses.{{cite web |last=Raftery |first=Isolde |title=A Place of Final Rest Changes Hands |website=City Room |date=September 13, 2017 |url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/a-place-of-final-rest-changes-hands/ |access-date=January 31, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903170002/https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/a-place-of-final-rest-changes-hands/ |archive-date=September 3, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}

Based on data from the 2020 United States Census, the population of Canarsie was 92,227, an increase of 8,534 (9.24%) from 83,693, and a decrease of 1,365 (1.6%) from the 85,058 counted in 2010. Covering an area of {{convert|1,959.94|acres}}, the neighborhood had a population density of {{convert|42.7|PD/acre|PD/sqmi PD/sqkm}}.{{Cite web |title=NYC 2020 Census |url=https://www.nyc.gov/content/planning/pages/planning/population |url-status=live |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=www.nyc.gov}} The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 79.4% (73,131) African American, 3.8% (3,488) non-Hispanic White, 0.3% (276) Native American, 2.0% (1,871) Asian, 0.0% (8) Pacific Islander, 2.9% (2,669) from other races, and 1.5% (1,278) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.5% (7,845) of the population.[http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610170733/http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf |date=June 10, 2016}}, Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.

The entirety of Community District 18, which comprises Canarsie and Flatlands, had 165,543 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 82.0 years.{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-bk18.pdf |title=Flatlands and Canarsie (Including Bergen Beach, Canarsie, Flatlands, Georgetown, Marine Park and Mill Basin) |date=2018 |website=nyc.gov |publisher=NYC Health |access-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-date=March 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307173856/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-bk18.pdf |url-status=live}}{{Rp|2, 20}} This is slightly higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf |title=2016–2018 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan: Take Care New York 2020 |date=2016 |website=nyc.gov |publisher=New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene |access-date=September 8, 2017 |archive-date=September 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909004755/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf |url-status=live}}{{Rp|53 (PDF p. 84)}}{{cite web |title=New Yorkers are living longer, happier and healthier lives |website=New York Post |last=Short |first=Aaron |date=June 4, 2017 |url=https://nypost.com/2017/06/04/new-yorkers-are-living-longer-happier-and-healthier-lives/ |access-date=March 1, 2019 |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302024959/https://nypost.com/2017/06/04/new-yorkers-are-living-longer-happier-and-healthier-lives/ |url-status=live}} Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 25% are between the ages of 0–17, 29% between 25 and 44, and 24% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 9% and 13% respectively.{{Rp|2}}

As of 2019, the median household income in Community District 18 was $80,471.{{cite web |url=https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3604009-nyc-brooklyn-community-district-18-canarsie-flatlands-puma-ny/ |title=NYC-Brooklyn Community District 18—Canarsie & Flatlands PUMA, NY |publisher=Census Reporter |access-date=July 17, 2018 |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044530/https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3604009-nyc-brooklyn-community-district-18-canarsie-flatlands-puma-ny/ |url-status=live}} In 2018, an estimated 21% of Canarsie and Flatlands residents lived in poverty, compared to 21% in all of Brooklyn and 20% in all of New York City. One in eleven residents (9%) were unemployed, compared to 9% in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 50% in Canarsie and Flatlands, lower than the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, {{as of|2018|lc=y}}, Canarsie and Flatlands are considered to be higher-income relative to the rest of the city.{{Rp|7}}

The 2020 census data from the New York City Department of City Planning shows that there were fewer than 5,000 white residents, fewer than 5,000 Asian residents, between 5,000 and 9,999 Hispanic residents, and over 40,000 black residents.{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-level/nyc-population/census2020/dcp_2020-census-briefing-booklet-1.pdf?r=3 |title=2020 Census Results for New York City |access-date=November 2, 2021 |archive-date=November 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105184029/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-level/nyc-population/census2020/dcp_2020-census-briefing-booklet-1.pdf?r=3 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Map: Race and ethnicity across the US |website=CNN |last1=Keefe |first1=John |last2=Wolfe |first2=Daniel |last3=Hernandez |first3=Sergio |date=August 14, 2021 |url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/us/census-race-ethnicity-map/ |access-date=November 7, 2021}}

During the 1990s, much of Canarsie's white population left for the suburbs as part of a national phenomenon referred to as "white flight". In the early 21st century, Canarsie's population is mostly black due to significant West Indian immigration in the area. East Brooklyn Community High School now serves the transfer student population.{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=86000US11236&_geoContext=01000US%7C86000US11236&_street=&_county=&_cityTown=&_state=&_zip=11236&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=860&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=null&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=null:null&_keyword=&_industry=&show_2003_tab=&redirect=Y |title=American FactFinder – Community Facts |publisher=United States Census Bureau |website=factfinder.census.gov |access-date=January 24, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212052040/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=86000US11236&_geoContext=01000US%7C86000US11236&_street=&_county=&_cityTown=&_state=&_zip=11236&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=860&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=null&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=null:null&_keyword=&_industry=&show_2003_tab=&redirect=Y |archive-date=February 12, 2020}}

Canarsie is primarily served by the NYPD's 69th Precinct, located at 9720 Foster Avenue,{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/69th-precinct.page |title=69th Precinct |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=New York City Police Department |access-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-date=January 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103035924/https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/69th-precinct.page |url-status=live}} although the small area west of the Bay Ridge Branch tracks falls under the 67th Precinct, located at 2820 Snyder Avenue.{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/67th-precinct.page |title=67th Precinct |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=New York City Police Department |access-date=April 27, 2020 |archive-date=January 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103035917/https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/67th-precinct.page |url-status=live}} In 2019, the 69th Precinct reported 2 murders, 25 rapes, 91 robberies, 146 felony assaults, 63 burglaries, 286 grand larcenies, and 72 grand larcenies auto. Crime in these categories fell by 84.9% in the precinct between 1990 and 2019, and by 60.9% since 2001.{{cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-069pct.pdf |title=69th Precinct CompStat Report |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=New York City Police Department |access-date=April 27, 2020 |archive-date=January 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103064312/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-069pct.pdf |url-status=live}} Of the five major violent felonies (murder, rape, felony assault, robbery, and burglary), the 69th Precinct had a rate of 456 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2019, compared to the boroughwide average of 571 crimes per 100,000 and the citywide average of 572 crimes per 100,000.{{cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2019.pdf |title=Citywide Seven Major Felony Offenses 2000–2019 |publisher=New York Police Department |access-date=March 23, 2020 |website=www.nyc.gov |archive-date=February 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217164041/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2019.pdf |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-by-precinct-2000-2019.pdf |title=Citywide Seven Major Felony Offenses by Precinct 2000–2019 |publisher=New York Police Department |access-date=March 23, 2020 |website=www.nyc.gov |archive-date=March 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319015709/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-by-precinct-2000-2019.pdf |url-status=live}} As of 2021, Canarsie’s significant decrease in crimes recently ranked the sixth-safest neighborhood for total crime among 22 neighborhoods in Brooklyn and 29th-safest overall among all New York City neighborhoods.

{{as of|2018}}, Community District 18 has a non-fatal assault hospitalization rate of 46 per 100,000 people, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 49 per 100,000. Its incarceration rate is 380 per 100,000 people, compared to the boroughwide rate of 460 per 100,000 and the citywide rate of 425 per 100,000.{{Rp|8}}

In 2019, the highest concentrations of felony assaults in Canarsie were near the intersection of 93rd Street and Avenue L, where there were 6, and on Farragut Road between 105th and 108th streets, where there were also 6. The highest concentrations of robberies were near the intersection of 103rd Street and Glenwood Road, where there were 4, and at the nearby intersection of 105th Street and Glenwood Road, where there were also 4.{{cite web |url=https://maps.nyc.gov/crime/ |access-date=March 23, 2020 |title=NYC Crime Map |publisher=New York City Police Department |archive-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219132509/https://maps.nyc.gov/crime/ |url-status=live}}

Canarsie is served by the New York City Fire Department (FDNY)'s Engine Co. 257/Ladder Co. 170/Battalion 58, located at 1361 Rockaway Parkway.{{cite web |website=FDNYtrucks.com |title=FDNY Engine 257/Ladder 170/Battalion 58 |url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/brooklyn/e257.htm |access-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-date=May 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515174151/http://fdnytrucks.com/files/html/brooklyn/e257.htm |url-status=live}}{{Cite FDNY locations}}

Preterm births are more common in Canarsie and Flatlands than in other places citywide, though births to teenage mothers are less common. In Canarsie and Flatlands, there were 89 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 11.6 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).{{Rp|11}} Canarsie and Flatlands has a relatively low population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive healthcare through Medicaid.[http://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/dsrip/pps_applications/docs/maimonides_medical_center/3.8_maimonides_cna.pdf New York City Health Provider Partnership Brooklyn Community Needs Assessment: Final Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723064434/https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/dsrip/pps_applications/docs/maimonides_medical_center/3.8_maimonides_cna.pdf |date=July 23, 2018 }}, New York Academy of Medicine (October 3, 2014). In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 21%, which is higher than the citywide rate of 12%.{{Rp|14}}

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Canarsie and Flatlands is {{convert|0.0071|mg/m3|oz/ft3}}, lower than the citywide and boroughwide averages.{{Rp|9}} Fifteen percent of Canarsie and Flatlands residents are smokers, which is slightly higher than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.{{Rp|13}} In Canarsie and Flatlands, 30% of residents are obese, 14% are diabetic, and 37% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.{{Rp|16}} In addition, 21% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.{{Rp|12}}

Eighty-one percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is lower than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 77% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", slightly less than the city's average of 78%.{{Rp|13}} For every supermarket in Canarsie and Flatlands, there are 9 bodegas.{{Rp|10}}

Canarsie and Flatlands are covered by ZIP Codes 11234, 11236, and 11239, which covers the Spring Creek section of the East New York neighborhood.{{cite web |title=NYC Neighborhood ZIP Code Definitions |website=New York State Department of Health |date=November 7, 2014 |url=https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/cancer/registry/appendix/neighborhoods.htm |access-date=March 5, 2019 |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327233549/https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/cancer/registry/appendix/neighborhoods.htm |url-status=dead}} The United States Post Office's Canarsie Station is located at 10201 Flatlands Avenue.{{cite web |title=USPS Locations |url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=11226&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1356842&locationName=CANARSIE&address2=&address1=10201+FLATLANDS+AVE |access-date=June 20, 2018 |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043120/https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=11226&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1356842&locationName=CANARSIE&address2=&address1=10201+FLATLANDS+AVE |url-status=live}}

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Canarsie Pier, a fishing spot and recreation area on Jamaica Bay, is located in the southern part of the neighborhood at the end of Rockaway Parkway.{{cite web |url=http://www.nyharborparks.org/visit/capi.html |title=Find Your Favorite Park |website=New York Harbor Parks |access-date=January 24, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805112731/http://www.nyharborparks.org/visit/capi.html |archive-date=August 5, 2017}} The pier is part of the Gateway National Recreation Area's Jamaica Bay Unit, operated by the National Park Service. The city renovated the pier in 1971,{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/23/archives/city-starts-renovation-of-canarsie-pier-area.html |title=City Renovation Of Canarsie Pier Area |date=May 23, 1971 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131081313/http://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/23/archives/city-starts-renovation-of-canarsie-pier-area.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}} and the NPS spent $5 million to renovate the pier again in 1992.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/21/nyregion/desperately-seeking-solitude-an-ocean-voyage-without-the-high-seas.html |title=Desperately Seeking Solitude; An Ocean Voyage Without the High Seas |last=Weir |first=Richard |date=June 21, 1998 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131023653/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/21/nyregion/desperately-seeking-solitude-an-ocean-voyage-without-the-high-seas.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}} The pier contains a restaurant and a visitor center.

Canarsie Park (aka Seaview Park), operated by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks), is located in two pieces south of Seaview Avenue: one west of East 93rd Street, and another east of East 102nd Street. In 1895 and 1896, the city acquired the plot of land bound by East 88th and East 93rd Streets between Seaview and Skidmore Avenues. At the time, the land contained the Jans Martense Schenck house. The park was expanded in 1934 after the city purchased land from the Department of Docks, and a playground was built at Seaview Avenue and East 93rd Street in 1936. Canarsie Park grew again in 1939 and 1948 using parcels from the New York City Board of Estimate. A fourth expansion occurred in 1954 when some land next to Fresh Creek Basin was purchased. The Seaview Avenue playground was renovated in the mid-1990s. Canarsie Park was renovated in the 2000s. During the renovation, a skatepark, a cricket field, and a nature trail were added. This renovation, and the upkeep of other parks in Canarsie, was attributed to an infusion of $13 million in funds from City Councilman Lewis A. Fidler, who represented Community Board 18 at the time.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/nyregion/state-of-citys-parks-varies-according-to-officials-priorities.html |title=A Little-Known Reason for Disparities in New York's Parks |last=Foderaro |first=Lisa W. |date=June 16, 2013 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131025343/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/nyregion/state-of-citys-parks-varies-according-to-officials-priorities.html |archive-date=January 31, 2018}} There are also facilities for baseball, soccer, basketball, and tennis, as well as a dog run. New York Road Runners hosts a weekly {{Convert|3|mi|adj=on}} Open Run in the park.{{cite web |title=Canarsie Park |publisher=NYRR |date=2023-08-23 |url=https://www.nyrr.org/openrun/parks/canarsie-park |access-date=2023-08-23}}

The neighborhood has several other parks operated by NYC Parks. Bayview Playground is located at Seaview Avenue and East 100th Street, within the Bayview Houses and next to PS 272. The original plot for the playground was acquired in 1955, and NYCHA gave additional land in 1962. Bayview Playground contains basketball and handball courts, as well as a play area and fitness area.{{cite web |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bayview-playground/history |title=Bayview Playground Highlights : NYC Parks |date=March 1, 1974 |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141552/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bayview-playground/history |archive-date=January 29, 2018}}

Bildersee Playground is located on Flatlands Avenue between East 81st and East 82nd Streets. Its namesake, Isaac Bildersee, was an assistant public school superintendent for Brooklyn during the 1940s. The city purchased the land in 1960 so it could construct IS 68, the Isaac Bildersee School, along with an accompanying playground. Bildersee Playground opened along with the school in 1965. It contains basketball and handball courts, as well as a play area.{{cite web |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bildersee-playground/history |title=Bildersee Playground Highlights : NYC Parks |date=December 5, 1947 |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129140818/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bildersee-playground/history |archive-date=January 29, 2018}}

Curtis Playground is located on Foster Avenue between East 81st and East 82nd Streets. It contains basketball courts as well as fitness and play areas.{{cite web |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/curtis-playground |title=Curtis Playground : NYC Parks |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141530/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/curtis-playground |archive-date=January 29, 2018}}

Sledge Playground is located on East 95th Street between Holmes Lane and Avenue L. The park originally opened in 1934 on land that was acquired by the city in 1924. In 1984, it was renamed after Cecil Frank Sledge, an NYPD officer for the 69th Precinct who was killed in the line of duty in 1980. Sledge Playground was renovated in 1997–1998.{{cite web |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/sledge-playground/history |title=Sledge Playground Highlights : NYC Parks |date=August 10, 1944 |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141623/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/sledge-playground/history |archive-date=January 29, 2018}}

100% Playground is located on Glenwood Road between East 100th and East 101st Streets. It contains handball courts, a playground, and spray showers.{{cite web |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/100-percent-playground |title=100% Playground : NYC Parks |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141634/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/100-percent-playground |archive-date=January 29, 2018}}

In 1978, the city proposed an additional park between East 102nd and East 108th Streets along Jamaica Bay, but residents opposed the new park because they wanted the funds to pay for existing parks' upkeep.

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The BMT Canarsie Line, on which the New York City Subway's {{NYCS trains|Canarsie}} runs, terminates at Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway near the northern end of the neighborhood. There is also a subway station at East 105th Street between Foster Avenue and Farragut Road.{{NYCS const|map}} The subway system's only level crossing was located at East 105th Street{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/24/archives/yes-city-transit-system-has-a-grade-crossing-city-lets-canarsie.html |title=Yes, City Transit System Has a Grade Crossing; City Lets Canarsie Retain Gates At Sole Transit System Crossing |last=Bennett |first=Charles G. |date=July 24, 1959 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130013610/http://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/24/archives/yes-city-transit-system-has-a-grade-crossing-city-lets-canarsie.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} until it was closed by 1973{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/06/archives/last-grade-crossing-on-subway-system-is-closed-canarsie-towerman.html |title=Last Grade Crossing on Subway System Is Closed |date=August 6, 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222162945/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/06/archives/last-grade-crossing-on-subway-system-is-closed-canarsie-towerman.html |archive-date=December 22, 2017}} as part of the Flatlands Industrial Park project.

The MTA Regional Bus Operations' {{NYC bus link|B6|B17|B42|B60|B82|B82 SBS|B103}}, and BM2 routes also run through Canarsie.{{Cite NYC bus map|B}} The B103 route was erected on June 16th, 1986 between Downtown Brooklyn and Canarsie, it originally terminated at East 94th Street and Flatlands Avenue, the BM2 had begun service 7 years prior, connecting the neighborhood with The Financial District and Midtown Manhattan. In 2009 both the B103 and BM2 were rerouted to service the Paerdegat Basin and suburbs of Canarsie, terminating at the Bruekelen Houses on Williams Avenue. The B42 route along Rockaway Parkway is a direct descendant of the former trolley route that ran to Canarsie Pier. There is a free direct transfer between the B42 and the subway at Rockaway Parkway. Other New York City Bus routes are the {{NYC bus link|B8}} on Avenue B between Ralph and Remsen Avenues and with the {{NYC bus link|B35}} on Church Avenue between Remsen Avenue and East 93rd Street, as well as the {{NYC bus link|B47}} on Ralph Avenue between Avenue A and Flatlands Avenue, close to the East Flatbush and Flatlands neighborhoods.

The principal roadways through Canarsie are Remsen Avenue, Rockaway Parkway, and Flatlands Avenue. The Belt Parkway, a limited-access parkway, serves Canarsie via an exit at Canarsie Pier.

Canarsie and Flatlands generally has a similar ratio of college-educated residents to the rest of the city {{as of|2018|lc=y}}. Though 40% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 13% have less than a high school education and 48% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 40% of Brooklynites and 38% of city residents have a college education or higher.{{Rp|6}} The percentage of Canarsie and Flatlands students excelling in math rose from 40 percent in 2000 to 57 percent in 2011, though reading achievement decreased from 48% to 46% during the same time period.

Canarsie and Flatlands's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is slightly lower than the rest of New York City. In Canarsie and Flatlands, 17% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, compared to the citywide average of 20% of students.{{Rp|24 (PDF p. 55)}}{{Rp|6}} Additionally, 80% of high school students in Canarsie and Flatlands graduate on time, equal to the citywide average of 75% of students.{{Rp|6}}

Public elementary schools in Canarsie include PS 114,{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/18/K114/default.htm |title=Welcome – P.S. 114 Ryder Elementary – K114 |date=February 16, 2017 |website=New York City Department of Education |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129154322/http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/18/K114/default.htm |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} PS 115,{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/18/K115/default.htm |title=Welcome To P.S. 115 The Daniel Mucatel School – P.S. 115 Daniel Mucatel School – K115 |date=February 17, 2017 |website=New York City Department of Education |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129154319/http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/18/K115/default.htm |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} PS 272,{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/18/K272/default.htm |title=Welcome – P.S. 272 Curtis Estabrook – K272 |date=March 6, 2017 |website=New York City Department of Education |access-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129145810/http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/18/K272/default.htm |archive-date=January 29, 2018}} PS 276,{{cite web |title=Welcome to P.S. 279 – P.S. 279 Herman Schreiber – K279 |website=New York City Department of Education |date=March 22, 2017 |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolportals/18/k279 |access-date=January 24, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107081954/https://schoolsearch.schools.nyc/ |url-status=live}} PS 279,{{Cite web |title=NY Public School- PS 279 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K279 |website=New York City Department of Education |access-date=September 18, 2024}} IS 68,{{cite web |title=Welcome – I.S. 068 Isaac Bildersee – K068 |website=New York City Department of Education |date=March 1, 2017 |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolportals/18/k068/default.htm |access-date=January 24, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125084637/http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolportals/18/k068/default.htm |archive-date=January 25, 2018}} and IS 211.{{cite web |title=K211 – I.S. 211 John Wilson – K211 |website=New York City Department of Education |date=February 9, 2017 |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/18/K211/default.htm |access-date=January 24, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126013926/http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/18/K211/default.htm |archive-date=January 26, 2018}} These schools are all operated by the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE).

Canarsie also contains buildings formerly occupied by the South Shore High School and Canarsie High School, which now serve as educational campuses. In late fall 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that five troubled high schools would close by 2010, including South Shore and Canarsie High Schools. According to a NYCDOE spokesperson, the closings were attributed to "dismal graduation rates, consistent low test scores, a poor history of educating, low performing students, and lackluster demand."{{cite web |url=http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2006-12-14/Front_Page/001.html |title=SOUTH SHORE H.S. TO CLOSE BY 2010 |work=Canarsie Courier |access-date=August 16, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816215316/http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2006-12-14/Front_Page/001.html |archive-date=August 16, 2016}}

Canarsie and Flatlands generally has a similar ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city {{as of|2018|lc=y}}. A 2018 study found that 38% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, but 14% have less than a high school education and 49% are high school graduates with some college education. By contrast, 38% of Brooklynites and 41% of city residents have a college education or higher.{{Rp|6}} The percentage of Canarsie and Flatlands students excelling in math has increased from 40 percent in 2000 to 57.4 percent in 2011, but within the same time period, reading proficiency dropped from 48% to 45.6%.

The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has two branches in Canarsie. The Canarsie branch is located at 1580 Rockaway Parkway near Avenue J. It opened in 1909 with a small circulating connection and became a BPL branch in 1932. Since then, it has relocated twice to accommodate high patronage.{{cite web |title=Canarsie Library |website=Brooklyn Public Library |date=August 19, 2011 |url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/canarsie |access-date=February 21, 2019 |archive-date=February 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222063419/https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/canarsie |url-status=live}} The Jamaica Bay branch is located at 9727 Seaview Avenue between Rockaway Parkway and East 98th Street, and it opened in 1973.{{cite web |title=Jamaica Bay Library |website=Brooklyn Public Library |date=August 19, 2011 |url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/jamaica-bay |access-date=February 21, 2019 |archive-date=February 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222051809/https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/jamaica-bay |url-status=live}} In addition, the Paerdegat branch is located just west of Canarsie, at 850 East 59th Street near Paerdegat Avenue South.{{cite web |title=Paerdegat Library |website=Brooklyn Public Library |date=August 22, 2011 |url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/paerdegat |access-date=February 21, 2019 |archive-date=February 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222044955/https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/paerdegat |url-status=live}}

The Canarsie Courier, published every Thursday, is the oldest weekly publication in Brooklyn and is still in publication. It was founded by Walter S. Patrick on April 22, 1921. The Courier was then purchased by brothers Bob and Joe Samitz in 1959. After the death of Joe Samitz, Mary Samitz became co-publisher of the paper with her husband Bob and then became the sole publisher after Bob's death in 1998. The Samitz family then sold the paper to Donna Marra and Sandra Greco. Marra became the sole publisher in 2010.{{cite web |title=The History of the Canarsie Courier |website=home.earthlink.net |date=April 25, 2002 |url=http://home.earthlink.net/~imkluger/canarsie/id3.html |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711082107/http://home.earthlink.net/~imkluger/canarsie/id3.html |archive-date=July 11, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}

Notable current and former residents of Canarsie include:

{{Category see also|People from Canarsie, Brooklyn}}

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• Danielle Brisebois (born 1969), former child actress (Archie Bunker's Place) and musician (New Radicals){{cite web |last=Esposito |first=Diana |title=Canarsie Once Home To Several Who Attained Fame & Fortune |website=Canarsie Courier |date=July 8, 2011 |url=http://canarsiecourier.com/news/2003-06-12/OtherNews/026.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708114824/http://canarsiecourier.com/news/2003-06-12/OtherNews/026.html |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=January 30, 2018}}
• John Brockington (born 1948), running back who played in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City ChiefsStaff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/23/archives/people-in-sports-mcmillen-is-first-casualty-of-knicks-training-camp.html "People in Sports; McMillen Is First Casualty of Knicks' Training Camp"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228054511/http://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/23/archives/people-in-sports-mcmillen-is-first-casualty-of-knicks-training-camp.html |date=December 28, 2017}}, The New York Times, September 23, 1977. Accessed April 30, 2017. "Apparently no team in the National Football League considered John Brockington to be worth $100. The 29 year-old native of Canarsie, Brooklyn, who played football at Thomas Jefferson High School and Ohio State, is out of a job after being put on waivers by the Green Bay Packers."
• Frank Carone (born 1969), political figure and lawye, who served as Chief of Staff for Mayor of New York City Eric AdamsGoldenberg, Sally; Gronewold, Anna; and Durkin, Erin. [https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2023/01/05/whats-next-for-frank-carone-00076512 "What's next for Frank Carone"], Politico, January 5, 2023. Accessed December 31, 2023. "Carone has long been a fixture in New York politics, operating behind the scenes as a lawyer, a fundraiser and counsel to the Brooklyn Democratic Party as it navigates perpetual internal turmoil. But Adams' ascent to New York City mayor gave the Canarsie native an opportunity to schmooze with the city's most elite class."
• Peter Criss (born 1945), rock musician with KissWiederhorn, Jon. [http://loudwire.com/kiss-destroyer-album-anniversary/ "41 Years Ago: KISS Unleash 'Destroyer' Album"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524122931/http://loudwire.com/kiss-destroyer-album-anniversary/ |date=May 24, 2016}}, Loudwire. Accessed April 30, 3017. "'That was his song, so it was tolerated,' Ezrin said. 'But Peter sang the hell out of it and we found Peter's true heart. Even though he was this street kid from Canarsie, Brooklyn, he was a soft and gentle guy inside. So he was completely believable and the girls fell in love with him.'"
• Patrick Clark (1955–1998), chefAsimov, Eric. [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/13/nyregion/patrick-clark-42-is-dead-innovator-in-american-cuisine.html "Patrick Clark, 42, Is Dead; Innovator in American Cuisine"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626115741/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/13/nyregion/patrick-clark-42-is-dead-innovator-in-american-cuisine.html |date=June 26, 2015}}, The New York Times, February 13, 1998. Accessed April 30, 2017. "Patrick Clark grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn, and was inspired to cook by his father, Melvin, who was also a chef."
• Warren Cuccurullo (born 1956), rock musician, went to Canarsie High School
• Michael De Luca (born 1965), film producerGalloway, Stephen. [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/confessions-mike-de-luca-161111 "The Confessions of Mike De Luca"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111209134245/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/confessions-mike-de-luca-161111 |date=December 9, 2011}}, The Hollywood Reporter, February 24, 2011. Accessed April 30, 2017. "'I was a bookish kid, not really athletic,' De Luca recalls of his youth in Canarsie, a working-class section of Brooklyn."
• Flipp Dinero (born 1995), American rapper{{cite web |url=https://www.vibe.com/2020/01/flipp-dinero-feature |website=Vibe |date=January 30, 2020 |first=Mark |last=Elibert |access-date=June 29, 2020 |title=Flipp Dinero Talks 'Love for Guala': 'I'll Be Bigger Than My Dreams' |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930154548/https://www.vibe.com/2020/01/flipp-dinero-feature |url-status=live}}
• The Fat Boys, rap group{{cite news |title=The Fat Boys Getting Just Desserts |newspaper=Washington Post |date=August 15, 1987 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/08/15/the-fat-boysgetting-just-desserts/13a09410-9c20-4d0c-b4f5-09eff016e31c/ |access-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131023314/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/08/15/the-fat-boysgetting-just-desserts/13a09410-9c20-4d0c-b4f5-09eff016e31c/ |archive-date=January 31, 2018 |df=mdy-all}}
• William Forsythe (born 1955), actor
• World B. Free (born 1953 as Lloyd Free), former professional basketball player
• Randy Graff (born 1955), Tony Award-winning actressWong, Curtis M. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/randy-graff-54-below-_n_4869727.html "Randy Graff's 'Made In Brooklyn' Draws Inspiration From Tony Winner's Early Years In Canarsie"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924201145/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/randy-graff-54-below-_n_4869727.html |date=September 24, 2015}}, Huffington Post, March 4, 2014. Accessed April 30, 2017.
• Alisha Itkin (born 1968), 1980s dance music singer
• Steven Keats (1945–1994), actorStaff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/18/obituaries/steven-keats-48-film-and-tv-actor.html "Steven Keats, 48, Film and TV Actor"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814063306/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/18/obituaries/steven-keats-48-film-and-tv-actor.html |date=August 14, 2017}}, The New York Times, May 18, 1994. Accessed April 30, 2017. "Mr. Keats, the son of Jewish emigrants from Denmark, was born in the Bronx and grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn."
• Dusty Locane (born 1999), drill rapper{{cite web |last=Saponara |first=Michael |title=Dusty Locane Recalls Pop Smoke Getting Kicked Off Their School's Basketball Team |website=HipHopDX |date=December 23, 2021 |url=https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.66710/title.dusty-locane-recalls-pop-smoke-hilariously-getting-kicked-off-their-schools-basketball-team |access-date=March 29, 2023}}
• Mark Morales, rap artist, member of the Fat Boys
• Dan Morogiello (born 1955), professional baseball player
• Necro (born 1976), rapper and producer{{cite web |url=http://www.hiphop-elements.com/article/read/6/5839/1/ |title=Necro – "The Art of Necro" Interview |publisher=Hiphop-elements.com |access-date=November 14, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114011032/http://www.hiphop-elements.com/article/read/6/5839/1/ |archive-date=November 14, 2013}}
• Diane Noomin (born 1947), underground cartoonistRudick, Nicole. [http://www.tcj.com/i-felt-like-i-didn't-have-a-baby-but-at-least-i'd-have-a-book-a-diane-noomin-interview/ "'I Felt Like I Didn't Have a Baby But At Least I'd Have a Book': A Diane Noomin Interview"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214020805/http://www.tcj.com/i-felt-like-i-didn%e2%80%99t-have-a-baby-but-at-least-i%e2%80%99d-have-a-book-a-diane-noomin-interview/ |date=December 14, 2017}}, The Comics Journal, May 8, 2012. Accessed December 27, 2017. "[Q] How much does her lifestyle resemble that of Canarsie, where you grew up? [A] It wasn't personally similar. I moved to Canarsie when I was twelve, going on thirteen, and I had to learn how to be a teenager in about two weeks because the mores were so different in Brooklyn."
• Al Roker (born 1954), broadcaster.[http://www.bklynlibrary.org/jamaica-bay/black-canarsie-history Black Canarsie: A History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813060537/http://www.bklynlibrary.org/jamaica-bay/black-canarsie-history |date=August 13, 2016}}, Brooklyn Public Library. Accessed June 23, 2016. "Famed weatherman and television personality Al Roker (b. 1954), the son of Bahamian immigrants, lived part of his childhood in the Bayview Housing complex during this period. Roker would later regale that Canarsie 'epitomized the melting flavor of Brooklyn with the variety of nationalities who lived there all bonded by their lower middle-class status.'"
• Wayne Rosenthal (born 1965), former professional baseball player and coach
• John Salley (born 1964), four-time NBA champion.Trontz, Ian. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/sports/ncaabasketball/lorenzo-charles-the-hero-of-starrett-city-in-brooklyn.html "A Lesson in Fleeting Fame From the Old Neighborhood"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908045118/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/sports/ncaabasketball/lorenzo-charles-the-hero-of-starrett-city-in-brooklyn.html |date=September 8, 2017}}, The New York Times, July 2, 2011. Accessed April 30, 2017. "Even among Charles's contemporaries, and within a few miles, were better-known figures like John Salley from Canarsie, Mike Tyson from Brownsville and Pearl Washington from Bedford-Stuyvesant."
• Lance Schulters (born 1975), professional football player
• Howard Schultz (born 1953), chairman of Starbucks Coffee CompanyWitchel, Alex. [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/14/garden/coffee-talk-with-howard-schultz-way-canarsie-one-large-hot-cup-business-strategy.html "Coffee Talk With: Howard Schultz; By Way of Canarsie, One Large Hot Cup of Business Strategy"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210065009/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E7DA1638F937A25751C1A962958260 |date=February 10, 2009}}, The New York Times, December 14, 1994. Accessed October 1, 2007. "'It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn,' says Howard Schultz, 40, who grew up in Canarsie."
• Annabella Sciorra (born 1960), actress
• Evan Seinfeld (born 1967), lead singer of Biohazard and actor[http://www.nypress.com/a-biohazard-seethes-in-brooklyn/ "A Biohazard seethes in Brooklyn."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704201515/http://www.nypress.com/a-biohazard-seethes-in-brooklyn/ |date=July 4, 2019 }}, NYPress.com, April 15, 2003, updated February 16, 2015. Accessed April 30, 2017. "At 18, says Seinfeld, it struck him that he'd attended something like a hundred funerals but not a single wedding. He'd grown accustomed to seeing his friends in Canarsie die by murder, suicide, overdose, car accident."
• Richard Sheirer (1946–2012), former director of the New York City Office of Emergency Management{{cite news |first=Bruce |last=Weber |title=Richard J. Sheirer, Official in Charge of Sept. 11 Rescues, Dies at 65 |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/nyregion/richard-j-sheirer-official-in-charge-of-sept-11-rescues-dies-at-65.html?_r=2&hpw |work=The New York Times |date=January 19, 2012 |access-date=February 4, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402181307/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/nyregion/richard-j-sheirer-official-in-charge-of-sept-11-rescues-dies-at-65.html?_r=2&hpw |archive-date=April 2, 2015}}
• Joel Sherman, sportswriterMcDonald, Joe. [http://www.nysportsday.com/news/combined/Writers-Spotlight-Joel-Sherman.php "Writer's Spotlight: Joel Sherman"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717043241/http://www.nysportsday.com/news/combined/Writers-Spotlight-Joel-Sherman.php |date=July 17, 2015}}, NY Sports Day, January 21, 2005. Accessed April 30, 2017. "After going the first month of the season with veteran writers on the Yankee beat, the Canarsie native took over in early May."
• Curtis Sliwa (born 1954), founder of the Guardian Angels.Barbanel, Josh. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/realestate/10Deal1.html "Preparing for Bonus Season"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114213511/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/realestate/10Deal1.html |date=January 14, 2018}}, The New York Times, December 10, 2006. Accessed October 10, 2007. "Mr. Sliwa grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn, and talks about also having lived in Brownsville and near Fordham Road in the South Bronx (though he lived most recently in a rental apartment in Kips Bay)."

* Pop Smoke (1999–2020), drill rapper.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/arts/music/pop-smoke-rap.html |title=The Rapid Rise of Pop Smoke, Brooklyn Rap's Homecoming King |website=The New York Times |date=September 6, 2019 |language=en |access-date=January 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214182419/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/arts/music/pop-smoke-rap.html |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |url-status=live |last1=Caramanica |first1=Jon}}

• Stuart Sternberg (born 1959), owner of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays.Schwarz, Alan. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/sports/baseball/12rays.html "Fan Exits Wall Street, and the Rays Profit"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106044417/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/sports/baseball/12rays.html |date=January 6, 2018}}, The New York Times, October 11, 2008. Accessed June 23, 2016. "Sternberg, the Tampa Bay Rays' principal owner, finally sat down and leaned his forearms on his team's dugout roof and finished watching his Rays lose, 2–0, to the Boston Red Sox on Friday night in the first game of the American League Championship Series. He cheered and high-fived and carped like the baseball nut he has been since growing up in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, rooting for the Los Angeles Dodgers and abhorring the Yankees."
• Rah Swish (born 1997), drill rapper{{cite web |last=Zidel |first=Alex |title=Rah Swish Asserts Himself As The "Mayor Of The Streets" On New Project |website=HotNewHipHop |date=June 16, 2021 |url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/335154-rah-swish-asserts-himself-as-the-mayor-of-the-streets-on-new-project-new-mixtape |access-date=March 29, 2023}}
• Lou Vairo (born 1945), coach of 1984 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team.Friedman, Jack. [http://people.com/archive/1980s-miracle-on-ice-gives-hockey-coach-lou-vairo-an-extremely-tough-act-to-follow-vol-20-no-24/ "1980s 'Miracle on Ice' Gives Hockey Coach Lou Vairo An Extremely Tough Act to Follow"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101061205/http://people.com/archive/1980s-miracle-on-ice-gives-hockey-coach-lou-vairo-an-extremely-tough-act-to-follow-vol-20-no-24/ |date=November 1, 2016}}, People (magazine), December 12, 1983. Accessed April 30, 2017. "For good reason. If hockey is a small, insular world, then Vairo grew up on what amounts to another planet. That is, he grew up not in Fond du Lac, Wis. or Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, but in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn."
• Leon Williams (born 1983), professional football player who played linebacker in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs.Garcia, Julian. [http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/williams-picks-miami-article-1.938749 "Williams Picks Miami"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228000425/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/williams-picks-miami-article-1.938749 |date=December 28, 2017}}, New York Daily News, January 27, 2001. Accessed December 27, 2017. "It might be a few years before Leon Williams gets to play in a Super Bowl. But if he does make it there someday, he'll have one other thing in common with three key players in tomorrow's big game. Williams – a 6–3, 230-pound All-City linebacker from Canarsie – gave a verbal commitment this week to the University of Miami, the same school where Giants linebackers Micheal Barrow and Jessie Armstead played, as well as Baltimore's Ray Lewis, the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year."

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