New York Aquarium

The New York Aquarium is the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States, located on the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City.

Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 2.5.

Opening hours:
May 25th—September 2nd: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
September 3rd—November 2nd: 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
November 3rd—March 28th: 10:00 AM—3:30 PM
March 29th—May 24th: 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
Type: Public aquarium
Description: aquarium in Brooklyn, New York
Address: Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11224

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Coney Island Cyclone and Wonder Wheel.

Coney Island Cyclone

Roller coaster

Photo: FieldMarine, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Cyclone, also called the Coney Island Cyclone, is a wooden roller coaster at Luna Park in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Coney Island Cyclone is situated 640 feet west of New York Aquarium.

Wonder Wheel

Ferris wheel

Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Wonder Wheel is a 150-foot-tall eccentric Ferris wheel at Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park at Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Wonder Wheel is situated 1,000 feet west of New York Aquarium.

West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium station

Metro station

Photo: Epicgenius, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium station is a New York City Subway station, located on the BMT Brighton Line and IND Culver Line in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn. West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium station is situated 660 feet north of New York Aquarium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brighton Beach and Coney Island and Brighton Beach.

Brighton Beach

Neighborhood

Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Brighton Beach, also referred to as Little Odessa, or Little Russia, is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline.

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

Neighborhood

Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.

New York Aquarium

Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.57437° or 40° 34′ 28″ north

Longitude

-73.97541° or 73° 58′ 32″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Wheelchair access

yes

Operator

Wildlife Conservation Society

Open location code

87G8H2FF+PR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 118767087

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=aquarium

GeoNames ID

6343391

Wikidata ID

Q1060884

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“New York Aquarium” goes by many names.

Chinese: “紐約水族館”
Dutch: “New York Aquarium”
French: “Aquarium de New York”
Italian: “acquario di New York”
Italian: “Acquario di New York”
Japanese: “ニューヨーク水族館”
Korean: “뉴욕 수족관”
Russian: “Нью-Йоркский аквариум”
Spanish: “Acuario de Nueva York”

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