Fort Wadsworth, In Defense of New York City
To most New Yorkers, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, is the staging area for the New York City Marathon. If you watch the start of the race, you will see the runners massing all around the structure, ready to embark on their 26.3 mile odyssey to Central Park. Few realize that strategically located at the entrance of the harbor, beneath the Verrazano Bridge, Fort Wadsworth valiantly defended New York Harbor for almost 200 years. Until its closure in 1994, it was…