r/Bensonhurst

Heard it might be 2PM to 11PM?

Hi all!

I am a YUPPIE (early 30s) moving around 20th and 85th ish soon.

I'm too old for 4am clubbing, but I am hoping that Bensonhurst has a social scene this subreddit can help me find. I heard Bay Ridge is one option (and is ~20 min bus ride away), but hoping y'all can chime in for more after-work and weekend options.

Coney Island Cyclone Ride

The Cyclone Ride goes to Coney Island Amusement Park (Brooklyn) from Manhattan. In July and August, we should get there just in time for fireworks! This is a casual ride at a relaxed pace.

Meeting Times:

7 p.m. at the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge (southwest corner of Chambers and Centre Street/Park Row)

OR

7:25 in Brooklyn at the Carroll St. Drawbridge (Carroll St. between Nevins and Bond)

OR

8:00 at the 69th Street Pier in Brooklyn at the Shore Parkway bicycle path entrance (take 68th Street past Owl’s Head Park and bear right)

Time's Up! - Coney Island Cyclone Ride

I‘ve lived in my current apartment for over 4 years and have never encountered a single bug. Last night, there was an ENORMOUS bug in my home. It flew into the bathroom and I thought it was a bat. I have NEVER seen a bug this big and I used to live in Florida, land of palmetto bugs. It is not a water bug, it’s much bigger. It came into the hall and I screamed and woke my husband up. He is not afraid of bugs but even he went “Eughhh!” and did not manage to get it. It’s somewhere in the home right now. We’re leaving on a trip today and I’m afraid this bug could be pregnant or invite all its friends while we’re gone. I will move out if my husband can’t find it. Burn it all down.

What kind of big could this be? Has anyone seen one like it here?

To me, as someone who is a resident and born and raised in Breukelen Houses in Canarsie, I would often study the history of Canarsie and to be surprised heard that Canarsie used be a Seaside resort and most of the land of Canarsie used to be marshlands, islands and was apart of Jamaica Bay, also during the 1860s to 1950s before Canarsie used to the suburb it is today there were a amusement park at the Pier, the L train used to run via East 95/96th to Canarsie Pier to a Ferry to the Rockways and all of Rockway Parkway used to be filled with hotels, casinos, fishing ports, restaurants and many tourists attractions just like Coney Island.

But when the Great Depression hit two fires destroyed the amusement park which they built the Belt Parkway over, the water gotten so polluted in Canarsie Pier that the amusement park closed down, the L train was cut to Rockway Parkway since the 20s, the Italians and Jewish people came in the 30s, the city decided to drain and put land around the marshlands and make Canarsie into a more permanent and a middle class suburban residential neighborhood were all the tourists attractions were built as 🏡, 🏫, strip malls and NYCHA properties(Glenwood, Bay View and Breukelen Houses) and when white flight happened where all the Italians, Jewish, Asians and Europeans moved out to New Jersey, Long Island and Queens and got replaced by West Indians from Flatbush, Crown Heights and Brownsville which is how the neighborhood is today.

As much I love Canarsie like my second mother due all my family living in Canarsie and being a Caribbean majority suburb on the Jamaica Bay which is quiet, working class and has such vibrant Jamaican, Haitian and Trinidadan culture. I feel like Canarsie nothing but a suburban, quieter and cheaper version of Flatbush and besides Pop Smoke, Canarsie Pier and L train Canarsie is so boring, isolated and quiet to where nobody talks about Canarsie unless if it gets flooded, if you went South Shore, Pop Smoke day happens, slept on the L train to the last stop or someone from Flatbush moved to a nice house, Nobody talks about Canarsie at all beside the cheap nice family houses, vibrant Caribbean culture, Canarsie Pier and Pop Smoke nobody knows or talks about Canarsie.

But still I was the mayor or in charge of Canarsie I would buy all the land and redo the area be like Coney Island and extend the L train to the Pier, clean the waters at the Pier and even make Canarsie to be like it was in the 1860s to 1900s be like a another Coney Island.

But tell you what you think about Canarsie down in the comments.👇⬇️

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hi everyone, i’m looking at an apartment on the corner of 79 and 19th. i’m from out of the state and am curious if anyone has any insight on this block/neighborhood. i’ve never been to the area so just curious on peoples experiences!

Hello everyone! I moved here about a year ago and have been with optimum home Internet. In the last couple of months, I have experience a lot of outages Internet drops hiccup it being down here and there and I am just getting really over it even though the price is great, but I think I have more down days than then ups. I live on 76th St. between 18 and 19th Ave. is there any other home Internet service providers around here that is reliable? I tried looking up Verizon and apparently strangely they don’t offer fios here. They only do the home Internet for 25mpbs. Spectrum is not available. Astounded is not available. T-Mobile home Internet is not available. Did I move to a really bad spot of Brooklyn that just doesn’t have any other service providers aside from optimum?

For everyone that has a hard time finding a parking spot in Bensonhurst, 62 Precinct closes out 311 trouble reports for commercial vehicles parking overnight on a residential street as “Police responded, No action taken” Anyone else frustrated looking for a parking spot and sees ILLEGALLY parked commercial vehicles parked on residential streets?