Governors Island  

BookMyTicket | India’s No 1 Travel Site Book Flights, Hotels, Holiday Packages, Visa, Passport, Movie, Resorts, Bus Ticketswww.bookmyticket.com or just give us MISSED CALL 022–66209999
Governors Island is a 172-acre island in Upper New York Bay, approximately 800 yards from the southern tip of Manhattan Island and separated from Brooklyn by Buttermilk Channel, approximately 400 yards. It is legally part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Physically, the island changed greatly during the early 20th century. Using material excavated from the IRT subway under Lexington Avenue, the Army Corps of Engineers supervised the deposit of 4,787,000 cubic yards of fill on the south side of Governors Island, adding 103 acres (42 ha) of flat, treeless land by 1912 and bringing the total acreage of the island to 172.