Little Red Lighthouse, Manhattan, New York, NY

The lighthouse was first established in 1889 at Sandy Hook, NJ. It was reconstructed in 1921 on the Hudson, operational until 1947. It was made famous by the 1942 children's book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde Swift and Lynd Ward. The "great gray bridge" is clearly the George Washington Bridge, though it is not named in the book. Construction on the bridge began in 1927, only 6 years after the lighthouse was erected at its current location, and concluded in 1931. The proposed dismantling of the lighthouse in 1951 resulted in a public outcry, largely from fans of Swift's book, leading to the preservation of the lighthouse by the City of New York/Parks & Recreation. Note the Homeland Security watch station.