Fort Wadsworth

Staten Island

Fort Wadsworth covers 226 acres on Staten Island's northeastern shore, on the Narrows of New York Harbor, and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge crosses its grounds.

  • 0.35 square miles
  • 48 street corners
  • 6 bus routes

British forces fortified the site in 1779, and its forts include the granite Battery Weed, completed in 1862, and Fort Tompkins, completed in 1876. The post was named in 1865 for James Wadsworth, a general killed at the Battle of the Wilderness, and it served the Army and then the Navy before becoming part of the National Park Service's Gateway National Recreation Area in the mid-1990s. Today it has a harbor overlook, walking and biking trails and a visitor center.

Sources: Fort Wadsworth - Gateway National Recreation Area (National Park Service); Detailed History of Fort Wadsworth - Gateway National Recreation Area (National Park Service); Fort Wadsworth (The Cultural Landscape Foundation); Fort Wadsworth (Wikipedia).

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Fort Wadsworth borders two areas, and New York Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, nine of 48.

Street map of Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, outlined among Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills and Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill.Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan HillsRosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill
  • Fort Wadsworth
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on six routes stop in or at the edge of Fort Wadsworth.

  • 3 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • S51
  • S53
  • S81

Express bus routes

  • SIM5
  • SIM6
  • SIM9

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Staten Island corner.

  • 17 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 0.4 a corner, on average
  • 2.2 the average Staten Island corner
  • 47 corners with a clean record

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Landmarks

Designated landmarks
The Fort Tompkins and the Battery Weed

Streets and trees

Trees
2 in NYC Parks' records, most often Japanese flowering cherry and magnolia
Street with the most corners
New York Avenue, with nine of the area's 48
Height above sea level
From 9 feet at Weed Road & Dock Road to 197 feet at Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge & Weed Road

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.