Dead Horse Bay
Dead Horse Bay is a small body of water off Barren Island, between the Gerritsen Inlet and Rockaway Inlet in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in New York, United States of America
- Address: NY
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aviator Sports and Events Center and Barren Island.
Aviator Sports and Events Center
Sports venue
Aviator Sports and Events Center is a sports and events center in Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York City. Operating as a concessionaire of the National Park Service, Aviator has refurbished four historic aircraft hangars and the surrounding grounds in partnership with the NPS.
Barren Island
Island
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Barren Island is a peninsula and former island on the southeast shore of Brooklyn in New York City. Located on Jamaica Bay, it was geographically part of the Outer Barrier island group on the South Shore of Long Island.
Floyd Bennett Field
Historic site
Photo: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay. The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roxbury and Gerritsen Beach.
Roxbury
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Roxbury is a community on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens originally settled by Irish immigrants in the early 20th century.
Gerritsen Beach
Neighborhood
Gerritsen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Sheepshead Bay to the west and Marine Park to the east. The area is served by Brooklyn Community Board 15.
Mill Basin
Neighborhood
Mill Basin is a residential neighborhood in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City. It is on a peninsula abutting Jamaica Bay and is bordered by Avenue U on the northwest and the Mill Basin/Mill Island Inlet on its remaining sides.
Dead Horse Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.58233° or 40° 34′ 56″ northLongitude
-73.89875° or 73° 53′ 56″ westOpen location code
87G8H4J2+WGOpenStreetMap ID
node 369037350OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
5114642Wikidata ID
Q5245221
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Dead Horse Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dead Horse Bay”
- Japanese: “デッド・ハウス湾”
- Japanese: “デッド・ホース湾”
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Localities in the Area
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