Marine Park-Plumb Island

Park · Brooklyn

Marine Park-Plumb Island is parkland, not a residential neighborhood, holding Marine Park, Brooklyn's largest public park, spread around the westernmost inlet of Jamaica Bay, and Plumb Beach beside the Belt Parkway on Rockaway Inlet.

  • 1.56 square miles
  • 3 street corners
  • 10 bus routes

The park began with 150 acres that Frederic B. Pratt and Alfred T. White donated in 1917, took the name Brooklyn Marine Park in 1937, and added a golf course in 1963 and a nature center in 2000. Plumb Beach, once part of a small island named for its beach plums, joined the mainland when Hog Creek was filled in the late 1930s, and horseshoe crabs come ashore each May and June.

Sources: Marine Park (Brooklyn) (Wikipedia); Marine Park, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Plumb Beach (Wikipedia); Plumb Beach (National Park Service).

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Marine Park-Plumb Island borders four areas.

Street map of Marine Park-Plumb Island, Brooklyn, outlined among Barren Island-Floyd Bennett Field, Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach and Madison, with its paths and the streets around it.Barren Island-Floyd Bennett FieldSheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen BeachMarine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen BeachMadison
  • Marine Park-Plumb Island
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Marine Park-Plumb Island.

  • 8 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B3
  • B4
  • B31
  • B41
  • B44
  • B44-SBS
  • B100
  • Q35

Express bus routes

  • BM3
  • BM4

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 55 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 18.3 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 2 corners with a clean record

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks

Parkland
685.3 acres of Marine Park, as NYC Parks maps it within Marine Park-Plumb Island

Streets and trees

Trees
1,914 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, London planetree and thornless honeylocust

Schools

The City lists two schools in Marine Park-Plumb Island.

Public schools
2

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.