Coast Guard Support Center NY

Category: Military Sites/Structures

Description: The large U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) facility, Support Center New York, consists of "a small, self-sufficient town, with several thousand people, a hotel, beauty salon, bowling alley, movie theater, nine-hole golf course and a Burger King".* The 172-acre island is surrounded by a seawall and is accessed by ferry from Manhattan. Coast Guard facilities on the island closed in 1995 and the USCG functions at were relocated to Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island.

Governors Island Coast Guard Memories

(* NY Times, February 4, 1995)