Jamaica Bay in Fiction
In the X-Men comic books, a space shuttle piloted by Jean Grey crashed into Jamaica Bay in Uncanny X-Men #101. This was the first appearance of the Phoenix persona in the series. In reality, where not dredged for a channel, most of the bay is only a few feet deep even at high tide.
American Airlines Flight 1 crashed in Jamaica Bay on March 1, 1962, killing 95 people. In the second season episode of the American television drama series Mad Men, "Flight 1", the fictional Andrew Campbell, the father of the character Pete Campbell, is among those lost.
The concluding sequence of the 1961 noir thriller Blast of Silence was shot in the fishing village formerly established in the Spring Creek / Old Mill Creek section of Jamaica Bay.
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“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”
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