Teardrop Island

Teardrop Island is an islet in Brooklyn, New York. Access is restricted and requires permission. Teardrop Island is situated nearby to the islet Music Island, as well as near the marketplace Smorgasburg.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Prospect Park and Concert Grove.

Prospect Park

Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Prospect Park is in Brooklyn. It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Park South.

Concert Grove

Park

Photo: Epicgenius, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Concert Grove is a section of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City, that historically functioned as an outdoor music venue. It still serves as a sculpture garden lined with busts of musical figures, largely put up by German American Sängerfest participants and other cultural groups. Concert Grove is situated 570 feet northeast of Teardrop Island.

Brooklyn Museum

Museum

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Brooklyn Museum is situated 1 mile north of Teardrop Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flatbush and Albemarle–Kenmore Terraces Historic District.

Flatbush

Quarter

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park to the north, East Flatbush to the east, Midwood to the south, and Kensington and Parkville to the west.

Albemarle–Kenmore Terraces Historic District

Neighborhood

Photo: Onorland, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Albemarle–Kenmore Terraces Historic District is a small historic district located in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It consists of two short cul-de-sacs, Albemarle Terrace and Kenmore Terrace, off of East 21st Street, and the 32 houses on the two streets, as well as a four-family apartment building at the end of Albemarle Terrace.

Windsor Terrace

Neighborhood

Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in the central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Prospect Park on the east and northeast, Park Slope at Prospect Park West, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Borough Park at McDonald Avenue on the northwest, west, and southwest, and Kensington at Caton Avenue on the south.

Teardrop Island

Access is restricted and requires permission.
Type: Islet
Categories: forest, locality, and landform
Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.65803° or 40° 39′ 29″ north

Longitude

-73.96638° or 73° 57′ 59″ west

Open location code

87G8M25M+6F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 707345646

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Music Island and Smorgasburg.

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