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Tompkinsville

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Worth seeing in and around Tompkinsville

10 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
    To the Struggle Against World Terrorism

    To the Struggle Against World Terrorism is a 10–story sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that was given to the United States as an official gift from the Russian government as a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It stands at the end of the former Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey.

    2.9 km · sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    700 m · museum in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Postcards

    Postcards is an outdoor sculpture in St. George, Staten Island, New York City, United States.

    1 km · memorial (sculpture) · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Saint George Terminal

    St. George Terminal (also known as St.

    700 m · ferry, railway, bus, and park and ride transit center in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wagner College

    Wagner College is a private college in Staten Island, New York, United States. It was established in 1883 and, as of the 2023–2024 academic year, it enrolled approximately 1,932 students, including 1,592 undergraduates and 340 graduates.

    2.9 km · private college in Staten Island, New York, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Staten Island Zoo

    The Staten Island Zoo is an 8-acre urban zoo in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City. The zoo is open year-round except on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.

    3.5 km · suburban zoo in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Robbins Reef Light

    The Robbins Reef Light Station is a sparkplug lighthouse located off Constable Hook in Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, along the west side of Main Channel, Upper New York Bay. The tower and integral keepers quarters were built in 1883.

    2.4 km · lighthouse in New Jersey, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Garibaldi-Meucci Museum

    The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, formerly known as the Garibaldi Memorial, is a c. 1840 Gothic Revival cottage in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York.

    2.6 km · house museum in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Buono Beach

    Buono Beach is a small shorefront public park in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in the neighborhood of Rosebank, at the foot of Hylan Boulevard. Buono Beach borders New York Harbor and is adjacent to the park containing the Alice Austen House.

    2.8 km · public beach in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St. Peter's Church

    The Church of St. Peter is a parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located in Staten Island, New York City in the neighborhood of New Brighton.

    1.2 km · church building in New York, United States of America · Wikipedia

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Getting to Tompkinsville

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 10 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 23 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 25 km
Stations
Clifton, 1.9 km · Stapleton, 1.2 km · Tompkinsville train station, 300 m · Grasmere, 3.9 km · Bachmann, 2.4 km
  • Philadelphia → Tompkinsville
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · $11–15
  • Hartford → Tompkinsville
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · $16–23
  • Albany → Tompkinsville
    226 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · $21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tompkinsville

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 Tompkinsville. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inNY Waterway operates four ferry routes connecting Jersey City to Manhattan.
  • Get inThe other two ferry routes leave from Exchange Place, and connect to World Financial Center and West 39th Street in Midtown.
  • Get aroundThe Via fleet of minivans and SUVs holds multiple passengers and offers wheelchair accessible rides.
  • Get aroundOff road shared use trails can be found along the Hudson River waterfront and in Liberty State Park.
  • Get aroundThe East Coast Greenway, a bike path that runs from Maine to Florida, cuts through Jersey City from Newark, eastward through Lincoln Park and city streets, to the ferries and to the riverfront walkway running north.

From Wikivoyage: Jersey City, 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

    79 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

    2,630 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,636 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,761 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tompkinsville

Tompkinsville is 10 km from Staten Island, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.