Governors Island
Governors Island is a 172-acre island in New York Harbor, within the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located approximately 800 yards south of Manhattan Island, and is separated from Brooklyn to the east by the 400-yard-wide Buttermilk Channel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Manhattan, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Governor’s I.”, “Governor’s Is.”, “Governor’s Island”, “Governors I.”, “Governors Is.”, “Hoogcamer Eylandt”, “Nooten Eylandt”, “Nooten Island”, “Noten Eylant”, “Nut Island”, “Nutten Island”, “Pagganack”, “Pagganch”, and “Pagganck”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Liggett Hall and Fort Jay.
Liggett Hall
Building
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Liggett Hall, also known as Building 400 is a former barracks building designed by McKim, Mead & White and built in 1929 near Fort Jay on Governors Island in New York Harbor, in New York City.
Fort Jay
Photo: SebastianBlumeArt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Jay is a coastal bastion fort and the name of a former United States Army post on Governors Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. Fort Jay is the oldest existing defensive structure on the island, and was named for John Jay, a member of the…
The Battery
Park
Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Columbia Street Waterfront District and Red Hook.
Columbia Street Waterfront District
Neighborhood
The Columbia Street Waterfront District is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City on the Upper New York Bay waterfront between Cobble Hill and Red Hook and situated on the western side of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway.
Red Hook
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Red Hook is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, United States, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Carroll Gardens neighborhood on the northeast, Gowanus Canal on the east, and the Upper New York Bay on the west and south.
Cobble Hill
Neighborhood
Cobble Hill is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. A small neighborhood comprising 40 blocks, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Brooklyn Heights to the north, Boerum Hill to the east, Carroll Gardens to the south, and the Columbia Street Waterfront District to the west.
Governors Island
- Categories: public space and landform
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Governors Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Governors Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة غفرنرز”
- Catalan: “Governors Island”
- Cebuano: “Governors Island”
- Chinese: “州長島”
- Chinese: “总督岛”
- Chinese: “總督島”
- Chinese: “領主島”
- Chinese: “领主岛”
- Dutch: “Governors Island (New York)”
- Dutch: “Governors Island National Monument”
- Dutch: “Governors Island”
- Esperanto: “Governors Island”
- Estonian: “Governors Island”
- French: “Governors Island”
- French: “Noten Eylant”
- German: “Governors Island”
- Hebrew: “גברנרז איילנד”
- Hungarian: “Governors Island”
- Italian: “Governors Island”
- Japanese: “ガバナーズ島”
- Korean: “거버너스 섬”
- Korean: “거버너스섬”
- Persian: “جزیره فرمانداران”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ فرمانداران”
- Portuguese: “Governors Island”
- Russian: “Говернорс”
- Russian: “Губернаторский остров”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Guvernerov otok”
- Spanish: “Governors Island”
- Turkish: “Governors Island”
- Ukrainian: “Говернорс”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Ґовернорс”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Colonels Row and Nolan Park.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Governors Island National Monument and Castle William Light.
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