Coney Island Creek
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Knotweed
An eight-foot high forest of Knotweed (Fallopia japonica) on Coney Island Creek.
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Case in Point
Coney Island Creek this morning before the sun came out. Old barges … a home-made submarine, shopping carts, toxic muck. Pigeons: check. Rats: check, a longshoreman-sized one amid the rocks who turned around to give me the beady eye. But also Common Loons, a Great Blue heron and Black-crowned Night heron on the rotting wood…
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Coney Island Creeky
Coney Island is no longer an island and it is no longer full of what the Dutch called konijn, or, as the English would say, conies — that is, rabbits. Coney Island Creek, which cuts into the western end of the neighborhood, is all that remains of the watery border between the erstwhile island and…
Backyard and Beyond 