Gravesend Bay
Gravesend Bay is an estuary that is connected to the Hudson River, Coney Island Creek, Lower New York Bay, and Sheepshead Bay. It is contained within the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary and is positioned just southeast of the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge which spans The Narrows strait.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Kings County, New York, United States of America
- Also known as: “Nyack Bay”
- Address: NY
Places of Interest
Highlights include Coney Island Creek Park and Bensonhurst Park.
Coney Island Creek Park
Park
Photo: Wil540 art, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Coney Island Creek Park is a public park on the northwestern coast of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City. It abuts Coney Island Creek, Gravesend Bay, and Kaiser Park and is across Coney Island Creek from Calvert Vaux Park and Six Diamonds Park.
Bensonhurst Park
Park
Bensonhurst Park is a park in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, New York City. The park stretches from the north border at Cropsey Avenue to the south border at Gravesend Bay.
Calvert Vaux Park
Park
Calvert Vaux Park is an 85.53-acre public park in Gravesend, Brooklyn, in New York City. Created in 1934, it is composed of several disconnected sections along the Belt Parkway between Bay 44th and Bay 49th Streets.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bath Beach and Sea Gate.
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.
Sea Gate
Neighborhood
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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.
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.
Gravesend Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.58983° or 40° 35′ 23″ northLongitude
-74.00931° or 74° 0′ 34″ westOpen location code
87G7HXQR+W7OpenStreetMap ID
node 369037831OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
5119168Wikidata ID
Q34676892
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Satellite Map
Discover Gravesend Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Korean—“Gravesend Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gravesend Bay”
- Korean: “그레이브샌드 베이”
- “Gravesend Bay”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Seagate and Bath Beach.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include MatchPoint NYC and Bensonhurst Park Childrens Play Area.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gravesend Bay”. Photo: Suiseiseki, CC BY-SA 3.0.