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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.

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Throgs Neck Lighthouse
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- at the National Lighthouse Museum * 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 {{NewYork-struct-stub