| Fire Island Long Island (1826, 1857) This lighthouse was originally built to guide ships through New York Harbor. The current tower is a 166 foot brick structure with black and white bands. The tower first contained a bee-hive shaped Fresnel lens. Currently it houses an automated beacon. The Keepers quarters contains a museum and giftshop. 
Jefferies Hook | Fort Washington Park, New York, NY This is the lighthouse that inspired the children’s book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, by Hildegarde H. Swift with illustrations by Lynd Ward, published in 1942. The lighthouse was in operation at Jeffrey’s Hook from 1921 to 1947 with a flashing red light and a fog signal and is the only lighthouse on the island of Manhatten. The lighthouse became a celebrated "child’s landmark," after the proposed removal of the lighthouse in 1951 resulted in the public outcry of children and their allies. This prompted the preservation of the structure through its transfer to the jurisdiction of the City of New York/Parks & Recreation. 
Montauk Point | Montauk (1796) This is the oldest lighthouse of the 16 located on the coast of Long Island. President George Washington authorized the construction of this lighthouse. The tower is an 80 foot sandstone structure with a 1000 watt airport type beacon. It is located on the easternmost tip of Long Island, in the Montauk Point State Park. 
Orient Point | Long Island (1899) The high construction and maintenance costs for the architecturally beautiful lighthouses on Long Island, Fishers Island and Block Islands lead to the no-frills cast-iron lighthouse. The conical tower stands on a circular pier, a cast-iron caisson foundation formed by cast-iron plates filled with concrete. The bricklined tower is 24 feet tall sitting on a rocky reef 25 foot in diameter and 32 feet tall. Rust holes and cracks in the foundation that appeared a few years after completion wer patched with more iron plating, resulting in a weight imbalence that makes the tower tilt. The light was automated in 1966. |
