History
Coney Island Creek was minimally navigable and in the early 20th century the City of New York developed plans to widen, straighten and deepen it as the Gravesend Ship Canal. Those plans never came to fruition. Instead, a portion of the creek was filled in, making Coney Island a peninsula.
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