The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
If you are as nerdy as I am, this will interest you… Long before the fancy bridge was built connecting NY and NJ, local mariners lobbied congress to build a lighthouse to warn ships of the shoals of Jeffrey’s Hook in northern Manhattan. The lighthouse was extremely effective for many years, but became obsolete with the construction of the well-lit George Washington Bridge.
Today, the two-story lighthouse still stands below the grey bridge as a reminder of yesteryear. A couple times a year, NYC Parks and Rec Department opens the proud beacon to the public, and this Saturday is one of those times. It will be open from 1:00-3:00. Call to get some more info, and report back on how it went! I am going to try to get out there, but I have to take a trip upstate to go apple-picking. Kill me.
i’ve always wondered about that lighthouse! too bad i’m away this weekend, otherwise i’d totally go.
The lighthouse is one of those neat things about this city that seem so incongruous, as if they should belong somewhere out in the hinterlands.
Apple-picking? What the?