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Mill Basin: Waterside living, Brooklyn style
Until the early 20th century, the inlet that constitutes Mill Basin was largely swampland. Avenue U, now a residential and commercial thoroughfare separating Mill Basin from its northern neighbor, Old Mill Basin, was a small stream.
The area remained rural for hundreds of years, with its settlers surviving off of the plentiful shellfish in Jamaica Bay. In the early 1900s, marshes and streams...
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