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 ...

It’s been more than a decade since this former Coast Guard facility—a 172-acre hunk of land off the coast of Manhattan—re-opened as a public park. But it continues to evolve. In 2016 it ...