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Name: Whitestone Point Light  

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Nearest Town or City:
Whitestone, New York, United States

Location: East of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, two miles west of Willets Point


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Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard

Height of Focal Plane: 56

Description of Tower: Black skeleton tower.

This light is operational

Earlier Towers?
1889: Square, pyramidal wooden fog bell tower with light on top.

Date Established: 1889

Date Present Tower Built: c. 1908

Current Use: Active aid to navigation.


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