Brooklyn Waterworks, Freeport

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The Brooklyn Waterworks, also known as the Milburn Pumping Station, was a historic building in Freeport, Long Island. Designed by noted Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman and completed in 1890, it was described as "Long Island's most ambitious Romanesque Revival design." ()

Coordinates: 40°39'26"N, 73°36'7"W

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Brooklyn Waterworks – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Mitchel Athletic Complex, Lynbrook Police Department, Haviland-Davison Grist Mill.

4.6 miN
Sport venue, Sport
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, North Hempstead
117 min walk • Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York, east of New York City. The Long Island venue is approximately 7 miles east of the eastern limits of the New York City Borough of Queens, and is also next to the Meadowbrook Parkway.
4.7 miN
Football, Sport venue, Sport
Mitchel Athletic Complex, North Hempstead
119 min walk • The Mitchel Athletic Complex is part of the Mitchel Field complex, located in Uniondale, New York, on the site of the decommissioned Mitchel Air Force Base. The facility is owned by Nassau County. It is used mostly for football and soccer and also sometimes for athletics.
3.8 miW
City hall
Lynbrook Police Department, Lynbrook
98 min walk • Lynbrook is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States, on the south shore of Long Island. The population was 19,427 at the 2010 census.
3.3 miW
Museum, History museum
Haviland-Davison Grist Mill, Rockville Centre
85 min walk • Haviland-Davison Grist Mill is a historic grist mill located at East Rockaway in Nassau County, New York. It was restored and relocated to its present site in Memorial Park in 1963.
2.2 miE
Park
Norman J. Levy Park & Preserve, Merrick
57 min walk • Norman Levy Park and Preserve is a man-made park on the South Shore of Long Island in Merrick, New York. The park is situated on a hill formerly part of a landfill and has excellent views of the Manhattan skyline and Long Island.
2.4 miNW
Universities and schools
Molloy College, Rockville Centre
62 min walk • Molloy College is a private Catholic university in Rockville Centre, New York. It provides more than 50 academic undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs for over 5,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students.
3.1 miW
Cemetery
Rockville Cemetery, Lynbrook
80 min walk • Rockville Cemetery and Bristol and Mexico Monument is a historic cemetery located at Lynbrook in Nassau County, New York. The cemetery started as a small local burial ground in 1799.
2.3 miW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St. Agnes Cathedral, Rockville Centre
60 min walk • St. Agnes Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Rockville Centre, New York, on Long Island. It is the seat of the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
4.8 miE
Park
Wantagh Park, Long Island
122 min walk • Wantagh Park is a county park located in southeastern Nassau County, New York within the hamlet of Wantagh. At 111 acres the park provides various recreational activities along a picturesque waterfront location.
~930 ftSW
Amusement park
Nunley's, Freeport
5 min walk • Nunley's was a carousel and amusement park that was located in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York from 1940 to 1995. The namesake carousel was located in Golden City Park, within the neighborhood of Canarsie, Brooklyn, New York City, from 1912 to 1939.
4 miN
Universities and schools
Hofstra University, North Hempstead
102 min walk • Hofstra University is a private university in Hempstead, New York. It is Long Island's largest private university. Hofstra originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University under the name Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University.