{"id":47359,"date":"2014-05-27T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=47359"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:14:02","slug":"forts-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/47359\/forts-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Cool Forts to Visit in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the days of the American Civil War, New York City was a prominent strategic military and naval hub that included a number of tactical bases or \u201cforts.\u201d Today, we\u2019re left with none of the war and many of the historic structures.<\/p>\n

Surrounding some of the forts, you’ll find cultural and culinary activities are booming, so there is much more to see than stone walls and romantic archways. Here are five forts in New York worth visiting.<\/p>\n

Fort Totten<\/h2>\n

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Fort Tilden<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Fort Tryon<\/h2>\n

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Fort Greene<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Fort Jay<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Photos: Calvin W<\/a>, NYC Parks Dept., Chris Goldberg<\/a>, Mark Garbowski<\/a>, Thomas Angermann<\/a>, Janelle<\/a>
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In the days of the American Civil War, New York City was a prominent strategic military and naval hub that included a number of tactical bases or \u201cforts.\u201d Today, we\u2019re left with none of the war and many of the historic structures. Surrounding some of the forts, you’ll find cultural and culinary activities are booming, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":47366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,750,320,747,315,754,326,752],"tags":[21,108,293,143,125,212,110,133,65,282,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-47359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"category-bike-2","9":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","10":"category-bus-2","11":"category-day-trips","12":"category-manhattan-2","13":"category-queens-outer-boroughs-destination","14":"category-subway-2","15":"tag-beach","16":"tag-beer","17":"tag-budget-friendly","18":"tag-bus","19":"tag-food","20":"tag-hiking","21":"tag-historical-sites","22":"tag-outdoors","23":"tag-park","24":"tag-romantic","25":"tag-subway"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":47366,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14090148838_010fa2fc01_b-e1465183350307-300x169.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}