The Coast Guard was searching for a person in the waters off Governors Island after witnesses ... Sector New York issued a 29-foot response boat from the Coast Guard’s New York station to ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is studying closing its base on Governors Island in New York Harbor. Rep. Susan Molinari of Staten Island said on Friday that she expected the move to occur within three years.

Crew members from US Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod jumped into the Long Island Sound off Montauk, New York, Sunday to rescue four injured sailors from a damaged boat.

Governors Island might be the most coveted real estate in New York City. Since the federal government sold the island back to New York State for $1 in 2003, the former Coast Guard base has almost b… ...

It has been nearly 20 years—17, to be exact—since Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan persuaded President Bill Clinton to sell Governors Island to New York for a buck.

Governors Island was a military base for almost two centuries, home to US Army troops from 1812 to 1966, when it was transfered to the Coast Guard.