Liggett Hall

Liggett Hall, also known as Building 400, is a former barracks building designed by McKim, Mead & White and built in 1929 near Fort Jay on Governors Island in New York Harbor, in New York City.

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Jay and New York Harbor School.

Fort Jay

Photo: SebastianBlumeArt, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Jay is a coastal bastion fort and the name of a former United States Army post on Governors Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. Fort Jay is the oldest existing defensive structure on the island, and was named for John Jay, a member of the… Fort Jay is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Liggett Hall.

New York Harbor School

School

Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, also called the Harbor School, is a public high school located on Governors Island. This school is unique in New York City, which has 538 miles of waterfront, in that it attempts to relate every aspect of its curriculum to the water. New York Harbor School is situated 640 feet northwest of Liggett Hall.

The Battery

Park

Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Columbia Street Waterfront District and Red Hook.

Columbia Street Waterfront District

Neighborhood

Photo: The lorax, CC0.

The Columbia Street Waterfront District is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City on the Upper New York Bay waterfront between Cobble Hill and Red Hook and situated on the western side of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway.

Red Hook

Neighborhood

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.

Red Hook is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, United States, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Carroll Gardens neighborhood on the northeast, Gowanus Canal on the east, and the Upper New York Bay on the west and south.

Cobble Hill

Neighborhood

Cobble Hill is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. A small neighborhood comprising 40 blocks, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Brooklyn Heights to the north, Boerum Hill to the east, Carroll Gardens to the south, and the Columbia Street Waterfront District to the west.

Liggett Hall

Type: Building
Description: former barracks building
Categories: built structure and historic site
Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.68943° or 40° 41′ 22″ north

Longitude

-74.01889° or 74° 1′ 8″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Height

80 feet (25 metres)

Open location code

87G7MXQJ+QC

OpenStreetMap ID

way 278396518

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=maritime

GeoNames ID

7309611

Wikidata ID

Q6545916

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