The Monitor and the Merrimac
The Monitor and the Merrimac is a work of art in Brooklyn, New York. The Monitor and the Merrimac is situated nearby to Monsignor McGolrick Park, as well as near Paul Clinton Garden.- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: sculpture
- Inscription: “Erected by the people of the State of New York to commemorate the battle of the Monitor and Merrimac March 9th 1862 and in memory of the men of the Monitor and its designer John Ericsson.”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Monsignor McGolrick Park and Fidelity Memorial Park.
Monsignor McGolrick Park
Park
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Monsignor McGolrick Park is located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in New York City, between Driggs Avenue to the south, Russell Street to the west, Nassau Avenue to the north, and Monitor Street to the east.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenpoint and Blissville.
Greenpoint
Neighborhood
Photo: Jleon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens; and on the west by the East River.
Blissville
Neighborhood
Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south.
Williamsburg
Photo: FieldMarine, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Williamsburg is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, as little as one subway stop away from Manhattan, and is bordered to the north by Greenpoint, to the east by Bushwick and to the south by Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The Monitor and the Merrimac
- Category: tourism
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.72451° or 40° 43′ 28″ northLongitude
-73.9428° or 73° 56′ 34″ westOpen location code
87G8P3F4+RVOpenStreetMap ID
node 9856980054OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculpture
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Paul Clinton Garden and Greenpoint Church of Christ.
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