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Governors Island, 173 acres (70 hectares), in Upper New York Bay, S of Manhattan island, SE N.Y. Bought from the Native Americans by the Dutch in 1637, it was the site of an early New Netherlands New Netherland, territory included in a commercial grant by the government of Holland to the Dutch West India Company in 1621. Colonists were settled along the Hudson River region; in 1624 the first permanent settlement was established at Fort Orange (now Albany, N.Y. ..... Click the link for more information. settlement. The island received its name in 1698 (officially 1784), when the British set it aside as the colonial governors' residence. Historic landmarks include Fort Jay (completed c.1800) and Castle William (1811), a Civil War military prison. Governors Island served as a U.S. military base until 1966, then becoming the east coast headquarters and training center of the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1988 it was the site of a meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The Coast Guard decommissioned its base in 1997, and the island was sold to New York for a dollar in 2003. The historic fortifications there are now a national monument. (see National Parks and Monuments National Parks and Monuments National Parks Name Type1 Location Year authorized Size acres (hectares)
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Five teams of the some of the world's most acclaimed architects and landscape experts are set to compete for the chance to transform destitute Governors Island into a destination park. Focusing on abandoned and nostalgic settings in Coney Island, Governors Island, and Times Square, they illustrate fantastical, haunted, and fragile aspects of our culture. The last balloons had burst, with the streamers straggling wanly in the carly morning breeze across Governors Island back in September last year. |
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