Coney Island Lighthouse
Coney Island Light is a lighthouse located in Sea Gate, on the west end of Coney Island, Brooklyn, in New York City, east of New York Harbor's main channel.Photo: Lighthouse83, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in New York, United States
- Also known as: “Coney Island (Nortons Point) Light”, “Coney Island Light”, “Norton’s Point Lighthouse”, and “Nortons Point Light”
- Address: 4705 Beach 47th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11224
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Coney Island Creek Park and Kaiser Park.
Coney Island Creek Park
Park
Photo: Wil540 art, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Coney Island Creek Park is a public park on the northwestern coast of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City. It abuts Coney Island Creek, Gravesend Bay, and Kaiser Park and is across Coney Island Creek from Calvert Vaux Park and Six Diamonds Park. Coney Island Creek Park is situated 2,800 feet northeast of Coney Island Lighthouse.
Kaiser Park
Park
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kaiser Park is a public park on the northwestern coast of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City. It abuts Coney Island Creek, Gravesend Bay, and Coney Island Creek Park and is across Coney Island Creek from Calvert Vaux Park and Six Diamonds Park. Kaiser Park is situated 1 mile east of Coney Island Lighthouse.
Parachute Jump
Carousel
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Parachute Jump is a defunct amusement ride and a landmark in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, along the Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island. Parachute Jump is situated 1½ miles east of Coney Island Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sea Gate and Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
Sea Gate
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sea Gate is a private gated community at the far western end of Coney Island at the southwestern tip of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Located on the portion of the Coney Island peninsula west of West 37th Street, it contains mostly single-family homes, some directly on Gravesend Bay.
Coney Island and Brighton Beach
Photo: David Reilly, CC BY 2.0.
Coney Island and Brighton Beach are in Brooklyn. In addition to those two neighborhoods, this article covers Manhattan Beach, Gravesend, and Sheepshead Bay.
Bath Beach
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bath Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located at the southwestern edge of the borough on Gravesend Bay. The neighborhood borders Bensonhurst and New Utrecht to the northeast across 86th Street; Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course to the northwest across 14th Avenue; and Gravesend to the east across Stillwell Avenue.
Coney Island Lighthouse
- Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.57661° or 40° 34′ 36″ northLongitude
-74.01176° or 74° 0′ 42″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Inception
1890Height
75 feet (23 metres)Operator
U.S. Coast GuardOpen location code
87G7HXGQ+J7OpenStreetMap ID
way 1185754230OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Japanese—“Coney Island Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Coney Island Light”
- Estonian: “Coney Islandi tuletorn”
- French: “phare de Coney Island”
- French: “Phare de Coney Island”
- German: “Coney Island Light”
- Japanese: “コニーアイランド灯台”
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