Blockhouse No. 1

Blockhouse No. 1, colloquially known as The Blockhouse, is a small fort in the North Woods section of , , . Finished in 1814, the Blockhouse is the second-oldest structure in the park, after Cleopatra's Needle, and the oldest surviving structure originally built within the park site.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: fort in New York City’s Central Park
  • Also known as: “Blockhouse” and “The Blockhouse”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Central Park and Frederick Douglass Circle.

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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of , is a district in its own right, neatly separating the from the , stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

Park
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is a traffic circle located at the northwest corner of at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and 110th Street in the borough of . is situated 870 feet northwest of Blockhouse No. 1.

Museum
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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 1 mile south of Blockhouse No. 1.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Manhattan Valley and East Harlem.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the northern part of the of in . It is bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street to the south, and Broadway to the west.

Neighborhood
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, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, and formerly Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of in , north of the and bounded by 96th Street to the south, to the west, and the and to the east and north.

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Upper is a large, relatively under-visited area that ranges from 125th Street to Inwood Hill Park on the west and from 96th Street northward on the east.

Blockhouse No. 1

Latitude
40.79867° or 40° 47′ 55″ north
Longitude
-73.95629° or 73° 57′ 23″ west
Inception
1814
Levels
1
Open location code
87G8Q2XV+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 39243913
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­fort
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­fort
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q4927275
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Blockhouse No. 1” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Блокхаўз №1”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المبنى رقم 1”
  • German: “Blockhouse No. 1”
  • Japanese: “第1ブロックハウス”
  • Polish: “Blokhauz № 1”
  • Russian: “Блокгауз № 1”
  • Ukrainian: “Блокгауз, Нью-Йорк”

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