Blackwell Island Light
Blackwell Island Lighthouse is a stone lighthouse built by the government of New York City in 1872. It is within Lighthouse Park at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island in the East River.Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in New York, United States
- Also known as: “Blackwell Island Lighthouse” and “Roosevelt Island Light”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Carl Schurz Park.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Museum
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Blackwell Island Light.
Carl Schurz Park
Park
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Carl Schurz Park is a 14.9-acre public park in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, named for German-born Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz in 1910, at the edge of what was then the solidly German-American community of Yorkville.
Noguchi Museum
Museum
Photo: Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Noguchi Museum is a museum and sculpture garden at 32-37 Vernon Boulevard in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, designed and created by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi Museum is situated 2,300 feet south of Blackwell Island Light.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Astoria and Upper East Side.
Astoria
Neighborhood
Photo: Dinker022089, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast, and Woodside and East Elmhurst to the east.
Upper East Side
Photo: Alex Proimos, CC BY 2.0.
The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
Lenox Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lenox Hill is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.
Blackwell Island Light
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Staten Island, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.77284° or 40° 46′ 22″ northLongitude
-73.94018° or 73° 56′ 25″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87G8Q3F5+4WOpenStreetMap ID
way 889019983OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Blackwell Island Light” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Blackwell Island”
- French: “Phare de Blackwell Island”
- Russian: “Маяк острова Блэквелл”
- Spanish: “Blackwell Island Light”
- Spanish: “Faro de Blackwell Island”
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