In 2003, it was "sold" to the city of New York for ... attraction. Tour Governor's Island here > Parts of the island have become National Monuments, including Fort Jay and Castle Williams, two ...

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 ...

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, ...