Battery Construction 220

Battery Construction 220 is a fort in Queens, New York. Battery Construction 220 is situated nearby to the historic site Nike Missile Site NY-49, as well as near the ruins Nike Silo.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge and Floyd Bennett Field.

Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge in New York City, New York, that crosses Rockaway Inlet. The bridge, which opened on July 3, 1937, connects the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, with Flatbush Avenue, in turn providing access to Floyd Bennett Field, Belt Parkway, and the Marine Park neighborhood in Brooklyn. Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge is situated 1 mile north of Battery Construction 220.

Floyd Bennett Field

Historic site

Photo: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay. The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air station. Floyd Bennett Field is situated 2½ miles north of Battery Construction 220.

Barren Island

Island

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Barren Island is a peninsula and former island on the southeast shore of Brooklyn in New York City. Located on Jamaica Bay, it was geographically part of the Outer Barrier island group on the South Shore of Long Island. Barren Island is situated 2 miles north of Battery Construction 220.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Roxbury and Neponsit.

Roxbury

Neighborhood

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Roxbury is a community on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens originally settled by Irish immigrants in the early 20th century.

Neponsit

Neighborhood

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Neponsit is a small affluent neighborhood located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the New York City borough of Queens. Neponsit is situated 1½ miles northeast of Battery Construction 220.

Breezy Point

Neighborhood

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Breezy Point is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the western end of the Rockaway peninsula, between Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south. Breezy Point is situated 2 miles west of Battery Construction 220.

Battery Construction 220

Type: Fort
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.56064° or 40° 33′ 38″ north

Longitude

-73.88776° or 73° 53′ 16″ west

Open location code

87G8H466+7V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1942351975

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=fort

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