Yellow Bar Hassock

Yellow Bar Hassock is an island in Brooklyn, New York. Yellow Bar Hassock is situated nearby to the neighborhood Broad Channel, as well as near the quarter Rockaway Park.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ruffle Bar and Broad Channel station.

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.

Broad Channel station

Metro station

Photo: Pacific Coast Highway, Public domain.

The Broad Channel station is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located in the neighborhood of the same name at Noel and West Roads in the borough of Queens.

Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.

The Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge is a toll bridge that carries Cross Bay Boulevard across Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York City, between Broad Channel and the Rockaway Peninsula.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Broad Channel and Gateway National Recreation Area.

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.

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.

Rockaway Park

Quarter

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.

Rockaway Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The area is on the Rockaway Peninsula, nestled between Jamaica Bay to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.

Yellow Bar Hassock

Type: Island
Description: island in the United States of America
Categories: wetland, locality, and landform
Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.60899° or 40° 36′ 32″ north

Longitude

-73.84317° or 73° 50′ 35″ west

Elevation

-3 feet (-1 metres)

Open location code

87G8J554+HP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 50976996

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wetland

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

5145200

Wikidata ID

Q34784678

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Yellow Bar Hassock” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Yellow Bar Hassock”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Seaside and Hammel.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Stony Creek Marsh and Black Wall Marsh.

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