Fort Wadsworth is one of the oldest military installations in the country. Occupying 226 acres on the northeastern shore of Staten Island, on the Narrows of New York Harbor, it was fortified by ...

Battery Weed at Fort Wadsworth sits on the northeastern shore of Staten Island. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service . Built around 1636, the fort began as a Dutch blockhouse.

Staten Island's elected Democrats joined Republicans in a rare united front Wednesday -- in opposition to using the former Fort Wadsworth military base in the borough to shelter migrants.

Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella suggested housing migrants on the National Mall instead of the former Fort Wadsworth military base on his borough. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File 5 ...

staten island, n.y. — In the latest efforts to curb the migrant crisis in New York City, local and federal officials are eyeing Staten Island’s Fort Wadsworth as a possible housing facility, a ...

A view of Battery Weed at Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island with the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in the background on September 26, 2021 in New York City.

Staten Island borough president: No asylum seekers at Fort Wadsworth 00:49. NEW YORK-- Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella is speaking out against the potential conversion of the Fort ...

A suicide occurred in the United States garrison at Fort Wadsworth, S.I., Friday afternoon. Louis Bauer, aged twenty-four, a native of Germany, was a private in Battery C, First Artillery, for ten ...