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Website: http://www.greatneckhistorical.org/
Notes:
In 2014 the Northeast Lighthouse Preservation Group and the Town of North Hempstead, the Great Neck Park District, and the Great Neck Historical Society forged a public/private partnership to save the lighthouse. Tower Height: 38 Height of Focal Plane: 46 Characteristic and Range: Occulting green 4 seconds, range 8 nautical miles. Description of Tower: Square brick tower attached to keeper's dwelling. Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1.5 story brick keeper's dwelling. Date Established: 1877 Date Present Tower Built: 1877 Date Automated: 1967 Optics: 1877: Fifth order Fresnel lens; now 300 mm optic. Fog Signal: Originally bell with striking apparatus. Current Use: Active aid to navigation. Open To Public? No. Directions:
This lighthouse is accessible by boat only; it can be seen from the Throgs Neck Bridge. It is just east of the bridge. Keepers: Findlay Fraser (1877-?); John Ninde Buckridge (assistant, 1877-?); Ernest Bloom (1910-?); Charles A. Rogers (c. 1934); Edmund Fitzpatrick (c. 1945)
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