Fourteen Foot Channel

Fourteen Foot Channel is a bar in Queens, New York. Fourteen Foot Channel is situated nearby to the neighborhood Sea Gate, as well as near the locality White Sands.

Places of Interest

Highlights include West Bank Light and Swinburne Island.

West Bank Light

Lighthouse

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

West Bank Light, officially West Bank Front Range Light, is a lighthouse in Lower New York Bay, within New York City, and acts as the front range light for the Ambrose Channel.

Swinburne Island

Islet

Photo: Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ), CC BY 2.5.

Swinburne Island is a 4-acre artificial island in Lower New York Bay, east of Staten Island in New York City. It was used for quarantine of immigrants. Swinburne Island is the smaller of two nearby islands, the other being Hoffman Island to the north. Swinburne Island is situated 2½ miles northwest of Fourteen Foot Channel.

Romer Shoal Light

Lighthouse

Photo: Berentis, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Romer Shoal Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in Lower New York Bay, on the north edge of the Swash Channel, about 3⁄4 nautical mile south of Ambrose Channel and 2+1⁄2 nautical miles north of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, in the entrance to New York Harbor. Romer Shoal Light is situated 2 miles south of Fourteen Foot Channel.

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. Sea Gate is situated 2½ miles north of Fourteen Foot Channel.

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. Bath Beach is situated 4 miles north of Fourteen Foot Channel.

Fourteen Foot Channel

Type: Bar
Categories: char and landform
Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.54038° or 40° 32′ 25″ north

Longitude

-74.01764° or 74° 1′ 4″ west

Open location code

87G7GXRJ+5W

GeoNames ID

5117770

Wikidata ID

Q49616509

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Fourteen Foot Channel” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Fourteen Foot Channel”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Sea Gate and White Sands.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Chapel Hill North Channel and Lower Bay.

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