A brush fire started in Spring Creek Park this afternoon around 161 Avenue and 83rd Street, sweeping through six areas of brush in the salt marsh. The fire first started around 3:45 this afternoon, flared up around 4 and was finally put out just after 5 p.m. The Spring Creek Park Preserve takes up 75 acres on the Queens/Brooklyn border and is "the largest undeveloped salt marsh in northern Jamaica Bay." Reader Valerio Bruscianelli sent us this photo, taken from South Street Seaport, and from this vantage point it looks like Gothamist HQ is the one up in flames!