Closing Bell: Tour Dead Horse Bay, Bring Home Vintage Bottles and More

Photographer and urban  explorer Will Ellis will lead a tour of Brooklyn’s Dead Horse Bay this week. The bay lies near the borough’s southeastern tip, across Flatbush Avenue from Floyd Bennett Field. It has been a city dumping ground for more than a century.

The bay earned its name as the final destination of the city’s carriage horses. Later, it was where the city’s trash was processed. Today the beach is filled with discarded objects from the 1930s and 40s thanks to an eroded landfill cap, according to the tour writeup.

Ellis suggests that those attending the tour bring a bag to carry home the old bottles, jars and other discarded objects they may find. Sturdy shoes or boots are recommended.

The tour takes place Thursday, June 18 at at 3 pm on June 18. Tickets are $20 ($15 for Municipal Art Society members). For more information or to buy tickets, click here.