Nike Battery NY-15L
USA /
New York /
Kings Point /
World
/ USA
/ New York
/ Kings Point
World / United States / New York
military, Cold War 1947-1991, nikemissile, closed / former military
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...
alpha.fdu.edu/~bender/NY15.html
www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/hart/nike//hart...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike
Nearby cities:
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