Several parks and beaches dot the city, including Plum Island Point Beach, Simmons Beach, Joppa Park, Waterfront Park, Woodman Park, Cashman Park, Moseley Pines Park and Atkinson Common and March's Hill Park.

* Plum Beach Lighthouse ( 1899 )

* Jamaica Bay Unit in Brooklyn and Queens includes much of the shoreline and water below the Shore Parkway beginning at Plum Beach and ending at Kennedy International Airport, along with several dozen islands in Jamaica Bay, a tidal estuary.

Plum Island Beach is a gently sloping shelf extending some distance out to sea.

A number of ships have been wrecked in the shallow waters off Plum Island Beach.

* Miami, Florida: Brickell Avenue, Indian Creek, Star Island, Coconut Grove ( Coco Plum ), Golden Beach

Brooklyn Community Board 15 is a local governmental body in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that encompasses the neighborhoods of Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Kings Bay, Gerritsen Beach, Kings Highway, East Gravesend, Madison, Homecrest, and Plum Beach.

Prunus maritima ( Beach Plum ) is a species of plum native to the Atlantic coast of North America, from Maine south to Maryland.

Plum Island, Massachusetts and Plum Island, New York are named after the Beach Plum, as are Plum Cove Beach, in Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Beach Plum Island ( State Park ) in Sussex County Delaware.

Brooklyn Community Board 15 includes Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Kings Bay, Gerritsen Beach, Kings Highway, East Gravesend, Madison, Homecrest, and Plum Beach.

* Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York, a neighborhood

Wilson, born Robert Edward Wilson in Methodist Hospital, in Brooklyn, New York, spent his first years in Flatbush, and moved with his family to Gerritsen Beach around the age of 4 or 5, where they stayed until he turned 13.

The building of rail links, such as the Brighton Beach Line in 1878 heralded explosive growth, and, in the space of a decade, the City of Brooklyn annexed the towns of New Lots in 1886 ; Flatbush, Gravesend, and New Utrecht in 1894 ; and Flatlands in 1896.

Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and South Beach, Staten Island in New York City is an example of a large community of recent Russian and Jewish Russian immigrants.

* South Greenfield ( Brighton Beach Line ), Brooklyn, New York

Keitel grew up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, with his sister, Renee, and brother, Jerry.

* Brighton Beach is a community on Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City.

Large pockets of Russian-Jewish Communities include Brooklyn, New York, specifically Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, and in the Sunny Isles Beach neighborhood of South Florida.

Ozone Park is a neighborhood located in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Queens bordering Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park, Howard Beach, and City Line, Brooklyn.

Before his infamous flight from Brooklyn, New York to Ireland in 1938, he had already flown a transcontinental flight from Long Beach to New York.

After growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood Gerritsen Beach, Smyth joined Scandal as vocalist in 1981.

* Brooklyn ( 1 ) – Gerritsen Beach Fire Volunteers Inc.

Also during the 1970s and 1980s, America expanded its immigration policies, allowing Soviet Jews and criminals to enter the country, with most settling in a southern Brooklyn area known as Brighton Beach ( sometimes nicknamed as " Little Odessa ").

* On July 2, 1878 steam railroad trains of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway began operations from Prospect Park to the Brighton Beach Hotel, which opened at the same time, located on Coney Island at the Atlantic Ocean at the foot of modern-day Coney Island Avenue at The Boardwalk.

* In 1896, a short northerly elevated extension of the Brighton Line ( since reorganized as the Brooklyn & Brighton Beach Railroad ) to the corner of Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street allowed rapid transit trains of the Fulton Street Line of the Kings County Elevated Railroad to operate from the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge to Brighton Beach, where a walking or cable car service connection over the bridge allowed access to New York City Hall at Park Row.

* On August 1, 1920, subway service on the Brooklyn – Manhattan Transit Corporation's Brighton Beach Line officially began upon opening of Montague Street Tunnel and a two track line connecting Prospect Park and DeKalb Avenue.