North Brother Island Light

North Brother Island Light
Location	North Brother Island, East River, New York Harbor
Coordinates	40°47′57.3″N73°53′58.5″W / 40.799250°N 73.899583°W
Tower
Constructed	1869
Construction	Wood tower
Shape	Octagonal Tower
Light
Deactivated	1953

Last updated September 16, 2025

North Brother Island Light was a lighthouse located on North Brother Island in the East River in New York City.^[1]^[2] The lighthouse was at the southern tip of the island. Before the lighthouse was erected, the island was uninhabited and saw no formal use.^[3] The tower utilized an occulting light which lit for five seconds and eclipsed for five seconds. It stood 47 feet above the water.^[4]

Notes

↑ Smithsonian lighthouse postcards Archived 2010-03-11 at the Wayback Machine . Archives Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Collection #1055 (subset), with nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
↑ ARLHS World List of Lights
↑ Burgess, Anika (June 6, 2015). "See the Abandoned and Inaccessible Island Where Typhoid Mary Died". Vanity Fair . Retrieved May 17, 2018.
↑ United States Coast Pilot: Atlantic coast. From Point Judith to New York. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1917. p. 166. Retrieved May 17, 2018.

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[postcard-1] Smithsonian lighthouse postcards Archived 2010-03-11 at the Wayback Machine . Archives Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Collection #1055 (subset), with nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

[ARLHS-2] ARLHS World List of Lights

[3] Burgess, Anika (June 6, 2015). "See the Abandoned and Inaccessible Island Where Typhoid Mary Died". Vanity Fair . Retrieved May 17, 2018.

[4] United States Coast Pilot: Atlantic coast. From Point Judith to New York. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1917. p. 166. Retrieved May 17, 2018.

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