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 in the .
  • 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.

Museum
The , often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 between 88th and 89th Streets on the of in New York City. is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Blackwell Island Light.

Park
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
is a 14.9-acre public park in the neighborhood of , , 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.

Museum
The is a museum and sculpture garden at 32-37 Vernon Boulevard in the neighborhood of in , designed and created by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. is situated 2,300 feet south of Blackwell Island Light.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Astoria and Upper East Side.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of . is bounded by the and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, to the southeast, and and to the east.

The of is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , 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.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood on the of in . It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.

Blackwell Island Light

Latitude
40.77284° or 40° 46′ 22″ north
Longitude
-73.94018° or 73° 56′ 25″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
87G8Q3F5+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 889019983
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­lighthouse
Geo­Names ID
6353002
Wiki­data ID
Q3378188
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