Marine Park, Brooklyn's largest park, offers viewing platforms and excellent birding opportunities. Gerritsen Creek provides a natural habitat for a variety a birds. It consists of acres of grassland and precious salt marsh, protected as a Forever Wild preserve.
798 acres
Brooklyn
Go to Google Maps, and enter your address for step-by-step directions to Marine Park. (This link will open a page outside the DEC website. Hold the "Shift" key down, and click on the link to open it in a new window.)
Telephone: 718-421-2021
Address: Bounded by Shore Parkway, Avenue U, Gerritsen Ave., and Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn
Website: Marine Park (This link leaves DEC's website)