The creek's name comes from a historic grist mill built on the creek's shore in the 17th century. Army Corps of Engineers budgeted $8.3 million for the restoration.Īrcheological investigation has determined that Native American people started to settle permanently in the creek's watershed as early as 5000 BC. In recent decades, efforts have been made to restore parts of the creek, particularly the salt marsh near its mouth, to a state closer to its natural one before modern settlement. : 212 According to Touring Gotham's Archaeological Past, the mill and the dam for its tide pond were between Avenues W and V, and the mill pond beyond the dam extended past Fillmore Avenue. The creek's mouth and much of its remaining length is part of a public park called Marine Park the head contains the Salt Marsh Nature Center, while the artificial Mau Mau Island is located nearby. : 211 That part of the creek was buried in a storm sewer in 1920. The creek had been truncated to the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Kings Highway by the early 20th century, flowing southeast through the neighborhood of Marine Park. : 211 Within that neighborhood, Bay Avenue and Olean Street run diagonally to the rest of the street grid, flanking the former path of the creek. The creek currently starts near Avenue U, but its original headwaters lay eight streets farther north, in what is now Midwood. The creek lies just beyond the maximum extent of the Wisconsin Glacier. The creek has been described as one of the "fingers" that formed the original shoreline of Jamaica Bay. Gerritsen Creek is a short watercourse in Brooklyn, New York City, that empties into Jamaica Bay. The Gerritsen Creek tidal mill in the 19th century
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