From NYC’s first gated community to Woody Guthrie: A history of Sea Gate

Jul 31, 2019 |

Photo via Flickr cc  What do Woody Guthrie, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Frank Schubert (the nation’s last civilian lighthouse keeper) have in common? They all lived in Sea Gate, a private community at the westernmost tip of Coney Island. Sea Gate began as a 19th-century playground for the rich, turned into a hotbed of Yiddish literature […more]

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