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Fort Richmond was named for Richmond County, in which Staten Island is located, while Fort Tompkins was named for Daniel D. Tompkins, governor of New York State in the War of 1812. New York City was not attacked in that war, so the first Fort Tompkins did not see action, although it was improved and the area fortified with up to 900 cannon ...
The New York City Marathon, an annual marathon (42.195 km or 26.219 mi) that courses through the five boroughs of New York City, starts on Fort Wadsworth. The Five Boro Bike Tour is an annual recreational cycling event in New York City that starts at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan and ends with a festival in Fort Wadsworth.
Public School 15 (Daniel D. Tompkins School) (Staten Island Area Office, Office of Building Services, Division of School Facilities, New York City Board of Education) November 19, 1996: Public School 20 Annex, 160 Heberton Ave March 22, 1988: Public School 28 (Former), 276 Center St September 15, 1998: Reformed Church of Huguenot Park
East New York, Brooklyn: Robert Bolden [115] PS 346: Abe Stark: East New York, Brooklyn: Abe Stark [116] Achievement First East New York School: East New York, Brooklyn [117] East New York Preparatory Charter School: East New York, Brooklyn [118] Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter School (PPA) Far Rockaway, Queens [119] Uft Charter School ...
In Lower New York Bay, 3.5 miles south of New Dorp Beach 40°30′44″N 74°05′56″W / 40.512222°N 74.098889°W / 40.512222; -74.098889 ( Old Orchard Shoal Light Lower New York Bay
Battery Weed is a four-tiered 19th century fortification guarding the Narrows, the main approach from the Atlantic Ocean to New York City.Located on the Staten Island waterfront on the west shore of the Narrows, directly across from Fort Hamilton and the now-destroyed Fort Lafayette in Brooklyn, the fort was intended to protect New York from attack by sea.
New York: 14 (7th) Seventh Regiment / Third Avenue / Tompkins Market Armory: 1857–60: Manhattan; Third Avenue (between East 6th and East 7th streets), East Village: New York: 15 (1st) First Division / State Arsenal: 1858: Manhattan; Seventh Avenue (at West 35th Street), Garment District: New York: 16 (22nd) Twenty-Second Regiment / 14th ...
Vanderbilt Avenue is the name of three thoroughfares in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island. They were named after Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), the builder of Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan .