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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.
Located at the east side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn, New York, Fort Hamilton is the only active military base in metropolitan New York City. In 1831, the Corps' New York District built the first coastal defense in New York City in the form of Fort Hamilton.