Duck Point

Duck Point is a cape in Brooklyn, New York. Duck Point is situated nearby to the neighborhood Broad Channel, as well as near Bergen Beach.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ruffle Bar and Floyd Bennett Field.

Ruffle Bar

Islet

Ruffle Bar is a 143-acre island located in Jamaica Bay in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, off the coast of Canarsie. The island is part of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, and lies just east of the former Barren Island, where Floyd Bennett Field is now located.

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. Floyd Bennett Field is situated 2 miles southwest of Duck Point.

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. Barren Island is situated 2½ miles southwest of Duck Point.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gateway National Recreation Area and East Brooklyn.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Gateway National Recreation Area is a national recreation area in Metro New York. This 26,607 acre park has four separate areas located in three boroughs of New York City and on Sandy Hook in central New Jersey.

East Brooklyn

Photo: Multiplicitous, CC BY-SA 3.0.

East Brooklyn encompasses Cypress Hills, East New York, Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Flatlands, Mill Basin, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, and Barren Island.

Broad Channel

Neighborhood

Photo: DoomDan515, Public domain.

Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It occupies Rulers Bar Hassock, the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay. Broad Channel is situated 2½ miles east of Duck Point.

Duck Point

Type: Cape
Description: cape in Kings County, New York, United States of America
Category: landform
Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.61788° or 40° 37′ 4″ north

Longitude

-73.86041° or 73° 51′ 38″ west

Open location code

87G8J49Q+5R

GeoNames ID

5115424

Wikidata ID

Q34854063

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Duck Point” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Duck Point”

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