And maybe a falcon, or so I'd like to think. The small raptor seemed to have the dark patches around her eyes, but she went fast, making frequent dives into the trees on the top of the hill, so it was hard for this novice to be certain. A flock of about 15 vultures coasted on the thermals that rose above the crest of the terminal moraine we now call Bay Ridge, but was once Yellow Hook, named for the yellow clay that leached into the sea water from the shore. It was renamed in 1853 by people traumatized by the Yellow Fever Epidemic.
The land that was sold to the city by press metal baron Eliphalet Bliss around the turn of the century for $835,000 opened as a park in 1928.
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