Photograph of Floyd Bennett Field — Photograph by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Floyd Bennett Field Historic District

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay. The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air station.”
Wikipedia article Floyd Bennett Field, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1980 · category: District · built in 1928.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Flatbush Ave., New York, 11234
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. district
Borough. Brooklyn
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 80000363 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1889 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Floyd Bennett Field Historic District, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Floyd Bennett Field Historic District, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

1,527 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,527 fires within 5 miles of Floyd Bennett Field Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,322 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 131 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1138
Arson/incendiarism	131
Natural	79
Smoking	66
Debris and open burning	34
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Recreation and ceremony	18
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	FOUNTAIN1
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	CREEK19
9 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	PLUMB2
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1947 USGS Coney Island quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Coney Island quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Coney Island quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Coney Island quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hendrick I. Lott House	2.7 miles	1994
Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhaven House	3.0 miles	1982
Manhattan Beach Jewish Center	3.2 miles	2015
Bay View Houses	3.3 miles	2026
Kingsway Jewish Center	3.5 miles	2010
Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church	3.5 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000363 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings County	All 207 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.