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Lower Bay

Lower New York Bay is a section of New York Bay south of . The eastern end of the Bay is marked by two spits of land, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and .
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Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay in New York, USA
  • Also known as: “Coenraets Bay”, “Godyns Bay”, “Lower Bay (NY and NJ)”, “Lower New York Bay”, “Lower New York Bay (NY and NJ)”, “Lower-Bai”, and “Port May”
  • Address: NJ

Places of Interest

Highlights include West Bank Light and Romer Shoal Light.

Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
, officially West Bank Front Range Light, is a lighthouse in Lower New York Bay, within , and acts as the front range light for the .

Lighthouse
Photo: Berentis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a sparkplug lighthouse in Lower New York Bay, on the north edge of the Swash Channel, about 3⁄4 nautical mile south of and 2+1⁄2 nautical miles north of Sandy Hook, , in the entrance to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Dorp Beach and Fort Hancock.

Neighborhood
Photo: Fiveoceandrive, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is along the shore of the neighborhood of New Dorp, on , one of the five boroughs of . It is between and .

Hamlet
Photo: Wikijazz, Public domain.
is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook in , . The coastal artillery base defended the and the entrance to , with its first gun batteries operational in 1896.

Neighborhood
Photo: Shannon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a neighborhood of in . It lies along the east-central coast of the island, in the area known locally as the "Mid-Island, Staten Island" or the "East Shore".

Lower Bay

Latitude
40.51677° or 40° 31′ 0″ north
Longitude
-74.04959° or 74° 2′ 59″ west
Open location code
87G7GX82+P5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 368396364
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
5100667
Wiki­data ID
Q1294277
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lower Bay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خليج نيويورك السفلي”
  • Armenian: “Լոուեր Նյու-Յորք ծոց”
  • Catalan: “Lower New York Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Lower Bay”
  • Chinese: “下纽约湾”
  • Dutch: “Lower New York Bay”
  • Esperanto: “Malsupra Nov-Jorka Golfo”
  • Estonian: “Lower New York Bay”
  • French: “Lower New York Bay”
  • Galician: “baía de Lower New York”
  • German: “Lower New York Bay”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ ניו יורק התחתון”
  • Italian: “Lower New York Bay”
  • Japanese: “ロウアー・ニューヨーク湾”
  • Korean: “고딘스베이”
  • Korean: “뉴욕 남만”
  • Korean: “로어뉴욕만”
  • Korean: “로어만”
  • Korean: “로어베이”
  • Portuguese: “Lower New York Bay”
  • Russian: “Лоуэр-Бей”
  • Russian: “Лоуэр-Нью-Йорк-Бей”
  • Slovenian: “Lower New York Bay”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Nueva York Baja”
  • Swedish: “Lower New York Bay”
  • Ukrainian: “Ловер-Нью-Йорк-Бей”
  • Venetian: “Baja de Lower New York”
  • Welsh: “Bae Efrog Newydd Isaf”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Old Orchard Shoal Light and Swinburne Island.

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