Dead Horse Bay

Dead Horse Bay is past Coney Island on the Belt Parkway that loops around Brooklyn. On some nearby islands there had been horse rendering plants and a land fill in the early 20th century. In the 1950’s that land fill busted open and since then at low tide all the trash, mostly glass bottles, of that time gets deposited on shore..along with the occasional horse vertebra. It’s a strange place, like a mosaic. Deserted. Go at low tide.

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