Originally part of the town of Flatlands, Canarsie remained a quiet fishing and farming village until the 1870s when a large numbers of German, Dutch, Scottish, Irish and Italians immigrants came to the area to fish and mine the oyster beds of Jamaica Bay. Canarsie also became a popular seaside resort complete with speakeasies, beer gardens, and vaudeville houses. By the 1930s, a mixture of the pollution of Jamaica Bay which ruined the fishing industry and the Depression forced many residents to move on. In 1939, the area's amusement park burned down. Immediately after, the whole area was leveled to build the Belt Parkway. After World War II, new residents, mostly Jews and Italians from other neighborhoods in Brooklyn, moved into the newly built one and two families, leaving Carnarsie's rural past behind.

Canarsie Reformed Church (82 Conklin Avenue), built in 1877, is a reminder of the area's German immigrant era.

Canarsie Pier- six-acre pier is used year-round for fishing, people-watching, picnicking and summer concerts.

This information was taken from The Brooklyn Website