Gateway National Recreation Area

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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Plumb Beach and Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.

Plumb Beach

Park

Photo: Glenn ocean, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Plumb Beach is a beach and surrounding neighborhood along the north shore of Rockaway Inlet, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is located near the neighborhoods of Sheepshead Bay and Gerritsen Beach, just off the Belt Parkway.

Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge

Bridge

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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.

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 northeast of Gateway National Recreation Area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Roxbury and Breezy Point.

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.

Breezy Point

Neighborhood

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Breezy Point is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the western end of the Rockaway peninsula, between Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.

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. Gerritsen Beach is situated 1½ miles northwest of Gateway National Recreation Area.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Type: Park
Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.5715° or 40° 34′ 17″ north

Longitude

-73.91009° or 73° 54′ 36″ west

Open location code

87G8H3CQ+JX

GeoNames ID

5118325

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