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Throggs Neck
Throggs Neck (also known as Throgs Neck) is a neighborhood and peninsula in the south-eastern portion of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It is bounded by the East River and Long Island Sound to the south and east, Westchester Creek on ...
,
the Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
, New York, was a wooden
lighthouse that was replaced by an iron skeletal tower that is still there. The lighthouse protects ships in the
Long Island Sound from running up against the rocks.
The lighthouse is located on the northeasterly side of
Fort Schuyler
Fort Schuyler is a preserved 19th century fortification in the New York City borough of the Bronx. It houses a museum, the Stephen B. Luce Library, and the Marine Transportation Department and Administrative offices of the State University o ...
, southeasterly end of
Throgs Neck
Throggs Neck (also known as Throgs Neck) is a neighborhood and peninsula in the south-eastern portion of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It is bounded by the East River and Long Island Sound to the south and east, Westchester Creek on ...
and on the northerly side of the entrance from
Long Island Sound into the
East River
The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Quee ...
.
* Tower Shape / Markings / Pattern: White, square, pyramidal,
* skeleton iron tower; lantern, black (1890); Red brick cylindrical tower (1906)
* Height: (1890); (1906)
Chronology
* Original wooden lighthouse established in 1827. It was torn down during the construction of the fort.
* A new wooden tower replaced the original lighthouse in 1835. It remained in service until 1890.
* Replaced by a skeletal tower in 1890.
* An oil house was built in 1896.
* Skeletal tower replaced in 1906 with a 35-foot red brick tower. Its location was southwest of the old light.
* Light discontinued in 1934 and replaced by a small skeleton tower surmounted with a small signal lamp.
References
External links
Throgs Neck Lighthouse- from Lighthousefriends.com
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- at the National Lighthouse Museum
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Lighthouses completed in 1827
Lighthouses completed in 1835
Lighthouses completed in 1890
Lighthouses completed in 1906
Lighthouses in New York City
1827 establishments in New York (state)
Transportation buildings and structures in the Bronx
Throggs Neck, Bronx
Government buildings in the Bronx
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