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    • In Focus: Coney Island And Sea Gate, As Seen From Calvert Vaux Park


    by on Sep 5th, 2012

    Source: Dave Mandl/ @dmandl

    From Nycgovparks.org:

    This park is named for Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), an English architect who spent 40 years of his distinguished career in New York City. He designed private homes, apartment complexes, public housing, and public institutions such as the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His partnership with Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) generated the designs for Central Park, Prospect Park, Morningside Park and Fort Greene Park. Vaux drowned under mysterious circumstances, and his body was found in nearby Gravesend Bay. In 1998, Parks named this property to honor the great landscape architect.

    From this view, we can almost wave hello to our friends at Sheepshead Bites.

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    • Matthijs van Guilder

      It’s am attractive little oasis of a park. Perhaps they should finish it off with a suitable sea wall/promenade and connect it to a ring of parkland paths for all.

    • Adrastos

      I have been to the almost completed park, while it is not that big, it is really nice never the less. The soccer or football fields are huge, and there are bathrooms there as well. It would be nice if the park was completed up to the water. But hopefully sometime in the future.

      We rode our bikes thru the trails all around the park and even thru the un-finished areas to get to the water, where a few men were fishing.
      It is truly a great view once you get to the water. You can see in all directions. I felt like a little boy exploring for the first time.

      This little park is like a hidden oasis, I liked it very much and have been living in Bath Beach for the last 25 years so to me to have this park re-done is definetely a plus.

      I was a little disappointed that on one of the newly constructed pathways to find a pile of coals that looked like they were just left from a bar-b-q….It is a shame that people just leave their garbage anywhere and think the garbage falry will pick up after them.