Rowayton, Connecticut
Rowayton is a coastal neighborhood in the city of Norwalk, Connecticut, roughly 40 miles (64 km) from New York City.
Rowayton is a coastal neighborhood in the city of Norwalk, Connecticut, roughly 40 miles (64 km) from New York City. The community is governed by the Sixth Taxing District of Norwalk and has a number of active local associations, including the Civic Association, the Historical Society, the Rowayton Library, a Gardeners Club, and a Parents Exchange. Rowayton annually plays host to a Shakespearean production at Pinkney Park, produced by Shakespeare on the Sound, and also has an active community of artists, many of whom are associated with the Rowayton Arts Center.
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Worth seeing in and around Rowayton, Connecticut
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Sheffield Island Light
Sheffield Island Light is a historic lighthouse located at the southern end of the Norwalk Islands in Norwalk, Connecticut. It marks the west side of the mouth of the Norwalk River on northern Long Island Sound.
2.2 km · lighthouse in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 02Frederick J. Smith House
The Smith House is a work of contemporary architecture designed by Richard Meier, a well-known architect born in 1934 who led the avant-garde modern architecture movement of the 1960s. The Smith House was planned starting in 1965 and completed in 1967 in Darien, Connecticut, and overlooks the Long Island Sound from the Connecticut coast.
1.9 km · building in Darien, CT · Wikipedia - 03Greens Ledge Light
Greens Ledge Lighthouse is a historic offshore lighthouse in the western Long Island Sound near Norwalk, Connecticut and Darien, Connecticut. It is one of 33 sparkplug lighthouses still in existence in the United States and remains an active aid to navigation.
2.6 km · lighthouse in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 04Beth Israel Synagogue
Beth Israel Synagogue was an Orthodox synagogue and, since 1972, a Baptist church building located at 31 Concord Street in the South Norwalk section of Norwalk, Connecticut, in the United States. Built in 1906, the Moorish Revival style building is the only known synagogue building in Connecticut displaying Moorish onion domes, and is an unusual example of an urban wood-frame synagogue.
3.5 km · Religious building in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rowayton, Connecticut
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 49 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 55 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 74 km
- Stations
- Darien station, 3.5 km · Rowayton station, 1.8 km · South Norwalk station, 3.7 km · Norwalk Harbor, 3.9 km
- New York → Rowayton, Connecticut62 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · $6–8
- Newark → Rowayton, Connecticut72 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · $7–10
- Hartford → Rowayton, Connecticut99 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · $9–12
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Rowayton, Connecticut is 43 km from The Bronx, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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