Stony Creek Marsh
Stony Creek Marsh is an island in Brooklyn, New York. Stony Creek Marsh is situated nearby to the neighborhood Broad Channel, as well as near the quarter Rockaway Park.Places of Interest
Highlights include Ruffle Bar and Floyd Bennett Field.
Ruffle Bar
Islet
Ruffle Bar is a 143-acre island located in Jamaica Bay in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, off the coast of Canarsie. The island is part of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, and lies just east of the former Barren Island, where Floyd Bennett Field is now located.
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.
Broad Channel station
Metro station
Photo: Pacific Coast Highway, Public domain.
The Broad Channel station is a local station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located in the neighborhood of the same name at Noel and West Roads in the borough of Queens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Brooklyn and Gateway National Recreation Area.
East Brooklyn
Photo: Multiplicitous, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Brooklyn encompasses Cypress Hills, East New York, Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Flatlands, Mill Basin, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, and Barren Island.
Gateway National Recreation Area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Gateway National Recreation Area is a national recreation area in Metro New York. This 26,607 acre park has four separate areas located in three boroughs of New York City and on Sandy Hook in central New Jersey.
The Rockaways
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rockaways is a peninsula in Queens, a borough of New York City. The area is well known as Queens' main beach area. This article also includes the nearby neighborhoods of Howard Beach and Broad Channel.
Stony Creek Marsh
- Type: Island
- Categories: wetland, locality, and landform
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6096° or 40° 36′ 34″ northLongitude
-73.8526° or 73° 51′ 9″ westOpen location code
87G8J45W+RXOpenStreetMap ID
way 50976982OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetlandOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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