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The United States Navy Yard, also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the New York Naval Shipyard (NYNS), was a shipyard located in Brooklyn, New York, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) east of the Battery on the East River in Wallabout Basin, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlear's Hook in Manhattan.
-- Lead image via the Library of Congress: Waterfront fire, probably burning of the Washington Navy Yard, 1814, Anacostia River, Washington, D.C. Ross used Dr. Beanesâs house on Academy Hill in Upper Marlboro as his headquarters on the night of August 22.