Fort Tilden is located in the Rockaways in Queens County and is part of the Gateway National Recreation ... defenses,” according to the National Park Service. The majority of the buildings ...

The park is named after the Brooklyn-born ... of the many coastal defense structures found in the Gateway National Recreation Area. Fort Tilden was initially named “Camp Rockaway Beach ...

The smoldering body of a man who was slain and set on fire was found yesterday in Fort Tilden Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area – the first time a corpse has been dumped in the ...

However, in February the National Park Service, which manages Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden—both part of the Gateway National Recreation Area—announced that popular hipster destination Fort ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Gateway National Recreational Area was the ... New York consist of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Fort Tilden, Riis Park in Queens, Floyd Bennett Field and Canarsie Pier ...

which oversees the Gateway National Recreation Area. Unlike the more crowded beaches at Jacob Riis Park just a stone's throw away, the beaches at Fort Tilden have no lifeguards, and its relative ...

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Fort Tilden is an old military base dating back to World War I. Now part of the National Park Service, it sits next to Breezy Point but — excluding the odd Little League game or party — it can ...

The National Park Service calls it unexploded ordnance, or UXO. UXO have been found throughout Gateway National Recreation Area, most recently at Fort Tilden and Fort Hancock, according to this ...