Nike Battery NY-15L

USA / New York / Kings Point /

military, Cold War 1947-1991, nikemissile, closed / former military

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Twenty Nike Ajax missles were housed in two underground magazines here between 1955 and 1961.

alpha.fdu.edu/~bender/NY15.html
www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/hart/nike//hart...

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike

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Coordinates: 40°51'29"N 73°46'15"W

Floyd Bennett Field (NOP) 30 km
Fort Hancock Historic Core 47 km
NWS Earle Pier Complex/Leonardo Piers 51 km
US Naval Weapons Station Earle 54 km
Fort Monmouth Reuse and Redevelopment Area 65 km
Munition Rail Transport Storage Area 71 km
US Naval Weapons Station Earle - Mainside 74 km
Naval Air Engineering Station - Lakehurst 106 km
Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), Lakehurst, Aircraft Platform Interface Group 107 km
Fort Dix Military Reservation 117 km

City Island (Bronx, NYC) 1.8 km
Pelham Bay Park 3.1 km
Eastchester Bay 3.5 km
Long Island Sound in New Rochelle, NY 4.2 km
Manhasset Bay 5.4 km
The Bronx 6 km
Town of North Hempstead 12 km
Nassau County, New York 19 km
Westchester County, New York 29 km
Long Island Sound 60 km

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