Located on 226 acres on the northeastern shore of Staten Island, Fort Wadsworth is one of the oldest military installations in the nation. Prior to its closing in 1994, Fort Wadsworth claimed to be the longest continually manned military installation in the United States, with the first use of the land for military purposes in 1663 as the site of a blockhouse. It served a variety of military purposes until 1995, when the United States Navy (who had been using it as the headquarters for the Naval Station New York since 1979) left.

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