Fort Tompkins, Gateway National Recreation Area

Name: Fort Tompkins
Address: Gateway National Recreation Area, United States

#3 among attractions in Gateway National Recreation Area

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Fort Tompkins, Gateway National Recreation Area

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Fort Tompkins is a fort on Staten Island in New York City, within what is now Fort Wadsworth at the Narrows. Fort Tompkins guarded the landward approaches to other forts in the area from 1808 through circa 1898. The current fort was built 1847-1861, and was operational as a fort until superseded by new defenses circa 1898. It is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. It is the last remaining of four forts in New York State named Fort Tompkins. ()

Coordinates: 40°35'60"N, 74°3'40"W

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East Shore (Fort Wadsworth)Gateway National Recreation Area United States

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Fort Tompkins – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Alice Austen House, Battery Weed, Garibaldi-Meucci Museum.

1 miNE
Elegant span connecting 2 NYC boroughs
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, New York City
25 min walk • Spanning the narrows between Staten Island and Brooklyn, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is an iconic feature of New York City's skyline. This majestic suspension bridge, completed in 1964, was once the world's longest suspension bridge span.
1 miN
Museum, Art museum, History museum
Alice Austen House, New York City
27 min walk • The Alice Austen House, also known as Clear Comfort, is located at 2 Hylan Boulevard in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York City, New York.
0.5 miNE
Forts and castles, Historical place
Battery Weed, New York City
14 min walk • Battery Weed is a four-tiered 19th century fortification guarding the Narrows, the main approach from the Atlantic Ocean to New York City.
1.2 miNW
Museum, History museum, Gothic Revival architecture
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, New York City
32 min walk • The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, formerly known as the Garibaldi Memorial, is a circa 1840 Gothic Revival cottage in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York. It was home to inventor and candle maker Antonio Meucci. The Italian revolutionary and political leader Giuseppe Garibaldi lived there from 1851 to 1853.
~950 ftNE
Lighthouse
Fort Wadsworth Light, New York City
5 min walk • Fort Wadsworth Light is a 1903 lighthouse built atop Battery Weed on Staten Island in New York Harbor. The light illuminates the Narrows, the entrance to the harbor. It is located under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
1 miN
Museum, History museum
Historic House Trust, New York City
27 min walk • The Historic House Trust of New York City was formed in 1989 as a public-private partnership with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to preserve the historic houses located within New York City parks, although most of the houses were not originally city-owned.
~950 ftNE
Park, Forts and castles
Fort Wadsworth, New York City
5 min walk • Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower halves, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay and Manhattan beyond.
1.1 miN
Park, Beach
Buono Beach, New York City
28 min walk • Buono Beach is a small shorefront public park in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in the neighborhood of Rosebank, at the foot of Hylan Boulevard.
0.4 miNE
Forts and castles
Flagstaff Fort, New York City
11 min walk • A Patriot redoubt built in June 1776, located on Signal Hill at The Narrows on Staten Island. Site of an earlier 1663 blockhouse that stood until at least 1808, preceded by one built by Dutch settler David Pieterszen de Vries in 1636 and destroyed in the Peach Tree War of 1655.

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Which popular attractions are close to Fort Tompkins?

Nearby attractions include Fort Wadsworth Light, New York City (5 min walk), Fort Wadsworth, New York City (5 min walk), Flagstaff Fort, New York City (11 min walk), Battery Weed, New York City (14 min walk).