After purchasing the formerly private Ellis Island, the United ... the following decades. Fort Jay was named for John Jay the Federalist governor of New York. When Thomas Jefferson and his ...

On an unseasonably cold day in late March, I took a nearly empty ferry to Governor’s Island in New York Harbor ... I was ...

Island Oyster – which has been perennially named one of the city’s hottest waterfront dining spots by Time Out – was once the ...

At Governors Island National Monument, biologists are discovering how birds navigate through New York City’s skyscrapers. He gestures around the grounds, pointing out Castle Williams and Fort Jay, ...