page_title: Port of New York and New Jersey
section_title: Lights and lighthouses
hierarchical_section_title: Port of New York and New Jersey / Lights and lighthouses
caption_attribution_description: English: Sandy Hook Lighthouse, Sandy Hook, NJ
context_page_description: The Port of New York and New Jersey is the port district of the New York-Newark metropolitan area, encompassing the region within approximately a 25-mile radius of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. It includes the system of navigable waterways in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, which runs along 650 miles of shoreline in the vicinity of New York City and northeastern New Jersey, as well as the region's airports and supporting rail and roadway distribution networks. Considered one of the largest natural harbors in the world, the port is by tonnage the third largest in the United States and the busiest on the East Coast.
  The port is the nation's top gateway for international flights and its busiest center for overall passenger and air freight flights. There are two foreign-trade zones within the port.
context_section_description: There are both historic and modern lighthouses throughout the port, some of which have been decommissioned
  Ambrose Light, Lower Bay (dismantled 2008)
  Bergen Point Light, Newark Bay (replaced)
  Blackwell Island Light, Roosevelt Island, East River (retired 1940)
  Chapel Hill Rear Range Light, Sandy Hook Bay (deactivated 1957)
  Conover Beacon (front range light), Leonardo
  Coney Island (Nortons Point) Light, Lower New York Bay, Sea Gate, Brooklyn
  Elm Tree Beacon Light, The Narrows, New Dorp, Staten Island
  Execution Rocks Light, Long Island Sound
  Fort Tompkins Light, The Narrows, Staten Island (retired)
  Fort Wadsworth Light, The Narrows, Brooklyn
  Great Beds Light, Raritan Bay, South Amboy
  Kings Point Light, Long Island Sound, Great Neck
  Kingsborough Community College Light, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn
  Little Gull Island Light, Long Island Sound
  Little Red Lighthouse (Jeffrey's Hook Lighthouse), Fort Washington, Manhattan
  Navesink Twin Lights, Sandy Hook Bay, Highlands
  New Dorp Light, The Narrows, Staten Island Swash Channel (retired)
  North Brother Island Light, East River
  Old Orchard Shoal Light, Gedney Channel, Lower Bay
  Princes Bay Light, Staten Island
  Robbins Reef Light, Constable Hook, Upper Bay
  Romer Shoal Light, Lower Bay near Sandy Hook Bay
  Sandy Hook Light, Sandy Hook
  Staten Island Light Lighthouse Hill, Staten Island
  Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, Upper Bay (until 1902)
  Stepping Stones Light, Long Island Sound, near City Island
  Stony Point light, Hudson River
  Throgs Neck Light, Throggs Neck, East River (decommissioned)
  Titanic Memorial, South Street Seaport, East River
  West Bank Light, Ambrose Channel, Lower Bay (range front)
  Whitestone Point Light, Whitestone Point, southerly side of East River
caption: Sandy Hook Light, the oldest continuously operating and standing lighthouse in the United States
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