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Sea Gate, Brooklyn

Sea Gate is a private gated community at the far western end of Coney Island at the southwestern tip of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Sea Gate, Brooklyn
Sea Gate, Brooklyn · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Sea Gate is a private gated community at the far western end of Coney Island at the southwestern tip of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Located on the portion of the Coney Island peninsula west of West 37th Street, it contains mostly single-family homes, some directly on Gravesend Bay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sea Gate, Brooklyn

8 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.

  1. 01
    Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

    The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows.

    4.5 km · bridge in New York City · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Prospect Park

    Prospect Park is a 526-acre urban park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Windsor Terrace, and is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

    9.9 km · public park in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Brooklyn College

    Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolled nearly 14,000 students on a 35-acre campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall 2023.

    7.6 km · senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lesbian Herstory Archives

    The Lesbian Herstory Archives is a New York City-based archive, community center, and museum dedicated to preserving lesbian history, located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Archives contain the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians.

    9.7 km · archive, history museum in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Todt Hill

    Todt Hill is a 401-foot-tall hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York. It is the highest natural point in the five boroughs of New York City and the highest elevation on the entire Atlantic coastal plain from Florida to Cape Cod.

    9.2 km · mountain · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Luna Park

    Luna Park was an amusement park that operated in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, from 1903 to 1944. The park was located on a site bounded by Surf Avenue to the south, West 8th Street to the east, Neptune Avenue to the north, and West 12th Street to the west.

    2.5 km · 1903 Coney Island amusement park · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Staten Island Museum

    Staten Island Museum is Staten Island’s oldest cultural institution, and the only remaining general interest museum in New York City. Founded in 1881 by fourteen of New York City’s first “environmental activists”, the Staten Island Museum houses artifacts and specimens from ancient to contemporary periods.

    9.5 km · museum in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Gowanus Canal

    The Gowanus Canal is a 1.8-mile-long canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the westernmost portion of Long Island. Once a vital cargo transportation hub, the canal has seen decreasing use since the mid-20th century as domestic shipping declined.

    10 km · canal in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Sea Gate, Brooklyn

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 19 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 21 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 25 km
Stations
25th Avenue, 2.9 km · 86th Street, 5.3 km · Coney Island-Stilwell Avenue, 2.3 km · Bay 50th Street, 2.4 km · 20th Avenue, 3.2 km
  • Philadelphia → Sea Gate, Brooklyn
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $12–17
  • Hartford → Sea Gate, Brooklyn
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · $16–22
  • Albany → Sea Gate, Brooklyn
    232 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · $21–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sea Gate, Brooklyn

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sea Gate, Brooklyn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe [http://www.nywatertaxi.com Water Taxi, at Fulton Ferry Landing, provides service from various points in Manhattan along the East River.
  • Get inThe Water Taxi has service between southern Manhattan and Red Hook, often used by customers of the Red Hook Ikea.

From Wikivoyage: Brooklyn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    73 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    574 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,621 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,627 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,752 km

If you know how people move in Sea Gate, Brooklyn – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Sea Gate, Brooklyn

Sea Gate, Brooklyn is 9 km from Brooklyn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Brooklynborough of New York City, New York, United States9.6 km
  • Coney Islandcoastal neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA2.2 km
  • Brighton Beachneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States3.9 km
  • The Narrowsstrait in New York City, USA5.3 km
  • Bensonhurstneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States3 km
  • Flatbushneighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States8 km