Governors Island is free and open daily, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Friday and Saturday nights until 10 p.m.) Only official cars are allowed on the island, so you must get there by ferry.

Governors Island is less than 10 minutes from either Manhattan or Brooklyn, and there are two ways to get there: the Governors Island Ferry and the NYC Ferry.

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Governors Island also bore witness to many historic moments. In 1919, Wilbur Wright took off from a landing strip on the southern part of the island on the first American flight over water.

Governors Island was a military post and later a major command headquarters for the Army from 1794 until 1966, when it was transferred to the Coast Guard, which left in 1996.

GOVERNORS ISLAND — On Thursday, several New York City officials gathered to break ground on the expansion of the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School on Governors Island.

Annual Governors Island attendance was about 750,000 in 2019. Newman said she expected the number to increase in the years ahead, but slowly, rising to a little more than 1 million.