Lighthouse · New York Harbor, New York

Little Red Lighthouse

Little Red Lighthouse
Photo: Billie Grace Ward, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The 39 ft (12 m) tower is still an aid to navigation. Its light shows one red flash every 3 seconds. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands under the George Washington Bridge.

Open in the viewer from Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse →

Quick facts

TypeLighthouse
Height12 m (39 ft)
LightFl R 3s
Position40.8502°N, 73.9470°W
From Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse27 km (17 mi), bearing 193° SSW
SourceNOAA ENC; USCG Light List Vol. I 37668; National Register 79003130; OpenStreetMap

How to see it

Above water but beyond the horizon from Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse, 27 km (17 mi) away: the curve of the earth hides it. CoastFinder draws it faintly and marks it hidden, with its bearing and distance.

On the website for now. New York's lighthouses are in the web viewer first, and they are coming to the CoastFinder app, which covers the North Carolina coast today. Follow @coastfinderapp to hear when New York arrives.

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Nearby

Not for navigation. Positions and depths come from public charts and records, with their sources named above; they are for looking, not for piloting a boat.