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Throgs Neck Light

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| name = Throgs Neck Lighthouse
| image_name= Throgsneck1890.JPG
| caption = Throgs Neck Lighthouse in 1890
| location = Throgs Neck in New York
| coordinates = {{coord|40|48|16|N|73|47|26|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map = New York
| pushpin = lighthouse
| coordinates_footnotes =
| yearbuilt = 1827
| yearlit = 1906
| automated =
| yeardeactivated = 1934
| foundation =
| construction =
| shape = Square pyramidal
| marking = White
| height =
| focalheight =
| lens = 1890: Fifth Order Fresnel lens, 1906: Fourth Order Fresnel lens
| currentlens =
| intensity =
| range =
| characteristic = Fixed White
| fogsignal = Bell every 15 seconds
| admiralty =
| ARLHS = USA-846 ^[1]
| USCG = 1-21520 ^[2]
}}

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

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: {{convert|64+1/4|ft}} (1890); {{convert|35|ft}} (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 {{convert|700|ft}} southwest of the old light.
Light discontinued in 1934 and replaced by a small skeleton tower surmounted with a small signal lamp.

References

1. ^ARLHS World List of Lights
2. ^{{cite uscgll|1||}}

External links

Throgs Neck Lighthouse - from Lighthousefriends.com
[https://web.archive.org/web/20041209185533/http://www.lighthousemuseum.org/nylights/throgs.htm Throgs Neck Lighthouse] - at the National Lighthouse Museum
{{Cite uscghist|NY}}

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