If you walk down 27th avenue all the way to the end you’ll end up at this bridge that crosses a highway on the other side of this highway you’ll see Calvert Vaux Park. This park is right by the water with giant fields to play sports and sit in. Along the edges of the park is the water of the Gravesend Bay. The park is named after a famous architect who co-designed Central and Prospect Park. He died in 1895 and the park was named Calvert Vaux in 1998 after him. Across the water on the north west side you can see the Verrazano Bridge that leads over to Staten Island. If you go to the south side of the park you can see a yellow bus poking its head up in the water. This is a homemade submarine named Quester 1 created by Jerry Bianco, a shipyard worker in 1970. Once he launched his submarine it immediately capsized and needed rescuing leaving his yellow submarine to lay in the middle of the Calvert Vaux cove. 

Although they’re doing work towards cleaning up the park they’re is still a lot of trash throughout the park that the park volunteers are working to clean up in the edges of the park and in the woods. There are also a lot of abandoned boats and old decaying docks that surround the perimeter of the park. These boats go as far back as the 1900s when Calvert Vaux cove was filled with docks, boats and shipyards. Now these boats just lay in the water with wildlife taking over covering some of them in plants and resting place for birds.