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Coney Island Light (also Nortons Point Light) is a lighthouse located in Sea Gate, on the west end of Coney Island, Brooklyn, in New York City, east of New York Harbor's main channel. [1] The lighthouse was first established in 1890. The current tower was first lit in 1920 and is still operational. It was automated in 1989.
Brooklyn is a village in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,313 at the 2020 census. It is located in the Irish Hills region of southern Michigan, just north of U.S. Route 12 along M-50. The village is located within Columbia Township. Michigan International Speedway is just to its south in Cambridge Township.
The lighthouse is the former home of Frank Schubert, the United States' last civilian lighthouse keeper, who died in 2003. [1] The chapel in Sea Gate, once used for services and built in 1901, is a historical building now used for social events, yoga classes, and is a polling site at election times.
The Quogue Historic District is an area of historic residences in Quogue on the East End of Long Island, New York.The historic houses include structures that date from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and retain their architectural and historic integrity.
The Narrows is the tidal strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City.It connects the Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay (of larger New York Bay) and forms the principal channel by which the Hudson River flowing south from upstate New York and the New England regions, empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Dumbo (or DUMBO, [2] [3] an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass [a]) is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It encompasses two sections: one situated between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, which connect Brooklyn to Manhattan across the East River, and another extending eastward from the Manhattan Bridge to the Vinegar Hill area.
These later became English settlements, and were consolidated over time until the entirety of Kings County was the unified City of Brooklyn. The towns were, clockwise from the north: Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht, with Flatbush in the middle.