4head's Governors Island Art Fair returns for its 10th edition, with emerging artists transforming abandoned coast guard facilities into art.

Uncover the secrets of Governors Island, a partially manmade island in New York Harbor with a storied history! ... The Coast Guard used the golf course until they vacated the island in 1996.

West 8 with MNLA, Rogers Marvel Architects, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The first phase of construction efforts to transform Governors Island from a Coast Guard base into a public park has been ...

The question was open ended: what should we do with Governors Island?” Before it became a Coast Guard installation in 1966, the island’s history included its role as a fishing ground for the ...

Governors Island. New York, New York. It’s been more than a decade since this former Coast Guard facility—a 172-acre hunk of land off the coast of Manhattan—re-opened as a public park.

For over two centuries, Governors Island was used by the British and American military and then for another 30 years as a base for the U.S. Coast Guard. Governors Island is home to Fort Jay and Castle ...

Jim Meineker served his country as an electronics technician in the US Coast Guard from 1969 to 1973. He grew up in the ...

Governors Island News. ... working part-time in the Box Office and as a Deckhand before receiving his United States Coast Guard’s license in 1995 and was promoted to Captain in 1996.