2013 Map of The Narrows

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Fort Wadsworth and Fort Hamilton stand as historic sentinels guarding the entrance to New York Harbor, connected by the massive span of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. This survey of the Staten Island shoreline and southwestern Brooklyn reveals a dense landscape of early twentieth-century suburban development and older burial grounds. Large greenspaces like the Moravian Cem and Silver Lake Reservoir contrast with the tight street grids of Concord and Dongan Hills. Along the coast, established maritime features such as the Fort Wadsworth Light and numerous piers near Clifton underscore the area's long-standing naval and commercial importance. Inland, the high ground of Todt Hill and Grymes Hill rises above the low-lying coastal reaches of Midland Beach and New Dorp Beach, offering a detailed view of the terrain that defined the expansion of the outer boroughs.