Harbor Defense Museum
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Harbor Defense Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Engeldrum Bluff, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 17 miles off. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Harbor Defense Museum, sometimes called The Caponier, is a 19th-century fort within the grounds of Fort Hamilton in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York, United States. It is New York City's only military museum and one of only seventy military museums in the United States that is funded and operated by the Defense Department.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1980.
Wikidata Q5654590, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1826
- Height
- 4.8 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 17.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 17.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 29.7 mi off the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Engeldrum Bluff: 0.1 mi
- John Paul Jones Park: 0.2 mi
- John J. Carty Park: 0.3 mi
- Gowanus Greenway: 0.4 mi
- Fort Hamilton Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Monument to John N. LaCorte: 0.1 mi
- John Paul Jones Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Dover Patrol: 0.2 mi
- First Resistance to British Arms in New York State August 1776: 0.2 mi
- Fort Hamilton Cannon: 0.2 mi
- The Gingerbread House: 1.4 mi
- Winter Flea + Smorgasburg: 3.5 mi
- Sideshows by the Seashore: 3.6 mi
- Endeavor: 3.6 mi
- Thunder Bolt: 3.7 mi
- Fort Wadsworth Visitor's Center and Museum: 1.4 mi
- Mont Sec House: 1.4 mi
- Alice Austen House: 1.7 mi
- Garibaldi-Meucci Museum: 2.2 mi
- National Lighthouse Museum: 3.1 mi
- Matthew J. Buono Beach: 1.6 mi
- South Beach: 2.4 mi
- Midland Beach: 3.7 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 3.7 mi
- New Dorp Beach: 4.7 mi
- Narrows Botanical Gardens: 2.0 mi
- Hill Street Community Garden: 2.6 mi
- West 23rd Street Community Garden: 3.0 mi
- Surfside Multicultural Garden Coalition: 3.1 mi
- Santos White Community Garden: 3.2 mi
- South Beach: 2.2 mi
- Eyes: 2.6 mi
- Mother Teresa Statue: 2.8 mi
- Hulk: 2.8 mi
- Bees for Sunset Park: 3.2 mi
- Eibs Pond Park: 2.6 mi
- Swinburne Island: 3.1 mi
- Jones Woods Park: 3.6 mi
- New Creek Bluebelt: 3.8 mi
- Last Chance Pond Park: 3.9 mi
- Fox Hills: 2.4 mi
- Park Hill: 2.6 mi
- Signal Hill: 3.0 mi
- Emerson Hill: 3.3 mi
- Battle Hill: 4.0 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.2 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.2 mi
- Freedom Field: 6.2 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.4 mi
- Street Seats: 10.7 mi
- Palisades: 9.3 mi
- Palisades: 11.1 mi
- Palisades: 14.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 16.2 mi
- Hawk Hill: 17.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 4.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 5.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.0 mi
- The Loch: 13.4 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 16.6 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 10.3 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 10.3 mi
- North Tower: 14.9 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 14.9 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 12.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 12.7 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 14.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.7 mi
- Barber: 13.0 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 19.3 mi
- Raritan Landing: 23.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 16.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Harbor Defense Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 322° | 179 m | 17.9 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 310° | 175 m | 17.6 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NNW 334° | 144 m | 24.8 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 312° | 134 m | 20.8 mi |
| Long Hill | WNW 286° | 126 m | 22.2 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 262° | 125 m | 4.4 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 208° | 120 m | 17.0 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SSW 207° | 106 m | 16.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 74001249OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle, reference 74001249, listed 08/07/74.
OpenStreetMap element way/249053508
Day trips start here
- Bayonne · 6 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 6 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 7 mi
- Staten Island · 7 mi
- Downstate New York · 8 mi
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