New York City’s importance to the nation ... Fort Morton and Fort Hudson were erected on Signal Hill (Fort Wadsworth) to improve the defenses. Approximately 1,800 yards across the narrows ...

Fort Wadsworth is one of the oldest military installations in the country. Occupying 226 acres on the northeastern shore of Staten Island, on the Narrows of New York Harbor, it was fortified by ...

NEW YORK-- Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella is speaking out against the potential conversion of the Fort Wadsworth site into an asylum seeker shelter. According to Fossella's office ...

forcing them to abandon their vehicle and jump 15 feet down from the roadway to the grounds of Fort Wadsworth, police said. The arrests came as police pursue a new strategy aimed at avoiding high ...

The museum opened in 1980 after moving from Fort Wadsworth, located across the harbor ... familiar with the history of coastal defense in New York City,” he said of visitors.

April 15. -- Sergt. Baldwin of the Signal Corps of the Department of the Colorado has received orders to prepare for his departure for Fort Wadsworth, New York Harbor. Sergt. Baldwin will leave to ...

On Monday evening, the Bidens traveled to the U.S. Coast Guard Sector New York in Staten Island for a special "Friendsgiving" event. The dinner at Fort Wadsworth is for service members and their ...

Honestly, the hardest thing about the New York City Marathon might be getting ... the starting line is located in Fort ...