• 16th Infantry Regiment, Fort Jay, New York City, 1938.

    Governors Island

    National Monument New York

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    Governors Island opens to the public for the 2013 season on Saturday, 25, 2013. See "Plan Your Visit" at left for details. More »

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Schedule of Events

Below is our calendar of special events. For our regularly-scheduled programming, click here for weekday programming and click here for weekend programming.

 

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Historic Weapons Demonstration by members of the 119th New York Volunteers.
Historic weapons demonstrations are just one of the activities offered during living history events.
Copyright Daniel C. Krebs

Did You Know?

General John J. Pershing about 1916.

At the start of American entry into World War I and just before leaving Governors Island in May 1917 to lead the 2 million soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force in France, General John J. Pershing (1860-1948) ran uptown into Manhattan to register early for the draft of the very army he was leading to France. He was going to be busy and out of town on draft registration day.