Floyd Bennett Field
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: defunct airport in Brooklyn, New York City
- Also known as: “Floyd Bennett Airfield” and “Floyd Bennett Airport”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barren Island and Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.
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.
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
Bridge
The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge in New York City, New York, that crosses Rockaway Inlet. The bridge, which opened on July 3, 1937, connects the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, with Flatbush Avenue, in turn providing access to Floyd Bennett Field, Belt Parkway, and the Marine Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roxbury and Neponsit.
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.
Neponsit
Neighborhood
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Neponsit is a small affluent neighborhood located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the New York City borough of Queens.
Belle Harbor
Neighborhood
Belle Harbor is a small residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the borough. Belle Harbor is situated 2 miles east of Floyd Bennett Field.
Floyd Bennett Field
- Categories: airport, former aerodrome, and joint-use aerodrome
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Floyd Bennett Field” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار فلويد بينيت”
- Cebuano: “Floyd Bennett Field”
- Chinese: “弗洛伊德·班尼特機場”
- Chinese: “弗洛伊德·貝內特機場”
- Chinese: “弗洛伊德貝涅特機場”
- Chinese: “弗洛伊德贝涅特机场”
- Chinese: “弗洛依德班尼特机场”
- Chinese: “弗洛依德班尼特機場”
- Dutch: “Floyd Bennett Field”
- French: “Floyd Bennett Field”
- German: “Floyd Bennett Field”
- Hebrew: “שדה התעופה פלויד בנט”
- Italian: “Floyd Bennett Field”
- Japanese: “フロイド・ベネット・フィールド”
- Japanese: “フロイド・ベネット飛行場”
- Lithuanian: “Floido Beneto Fyldo oro uostas”
- Lithuanian: “Floyd Bennett Field”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Floyd Bennett Field”
- Norwegian: “Floyd Bennett Field”
- Spanish: “Aeródromo Floyd Bennett”
- Urdu: “فلوئڈ بینٹ فیلڈ”
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