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Throgs Neck Light

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Year first lit
  
1906

Tower shape
  
Square pyramidal

Opened
  
1827

Deactivated
  
1934

Markings / pattern
  
White

Year first constructed
  
1827

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Location
  
Throgs Neck in New York

Original lens
  
1890: Fifth Order Fresnel lens, 1906: Fourth Order Fresnel lens

Similar
  
Stony Point (Henderson) Light, Point Aux Roches Light, Buffalo North Breakwat, South Buffalo North Sid, Coxsackie Light

Throgs Neck Lighthouse in the Bronx, New York, United States 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

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Map of Throgs Neck, Bronx, NY 10465, USA

The lighthouse is located on the northeasterly side of Fort Schuyler, southeasterly end of Throgs Neck and on the northerly side of the entrance from Long Island Sound into the East River.

  • Tower Shape / Markings / Pattern: White, square, pyramidal,
  • skeleton iron tower; lantern, black (1890); Red brick cylindrical tower (1906)
  • Height: 64 1⁄4 feet (19.6 m) (1890); 35 feet (11 m) (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 700 feet (210 m) southwest of the old light.
  • Light discontinued in 1934 and replaced by a small skeleton tower surmounted with a small signal lamp.

    • References

    Throgs Neck Light Wikipedia
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