{"id":2446,"date":"2020-04-27T23:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T03:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2020-04-28T20:45:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T00:45:31","slug":"fort-tilden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2020\/04\/27\/fort-tilden\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Tilden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another defense that was used to protect soldiers and civilians from the Cold War hostilities was Fort Tilden, which is in the Queens borough of New York (40\u00b033’42.2″N 73\u00b053’43.2″W). This base was established in 1917, as a \u201charbor defense of New York.\u201d[1]<\/a> In the Fort Tilden guidebook, Christina Selvek wrote that Fort Tilden was originally an \u201cemergency civilian housing for returning World War II veterans and their families\u201d[2]<\/a>. Until December 1950, this fort was reactivated as a station for soldiers after the \u201cannouncement of an installation of a [one-thousand men] battalion intended to train new recruits and provide anti-aircraft protection for New York City.\u201d[3]<\/a> The battalion was then allocated \u201cas a regular anti-aircraft group\u201d in Fort Tilden, after the Korean War began.[4]<\/a> After the preparation for possible raids, nearly three hundred residential \u201cveterans and families\u201d were required to evacuate, so the \u201cbattalion\u201d could prepare for battles in \u201cearly spring of 1951.\u201d[5]<\/a> Selvek affirms that the rising Cold War and start of the Korean War provoked apprehension \u201cover the coastal defenses of New York City\u201d because of where the veterans and families will live and how citizens will survive the global hostilities.[6]<\/a> In 1955, the Army assembled the \u201cNike missile site NY-49,\u201d which is one of the \u201cNike missile sites in the New York City,\u201d in order to protect themselves further from the global dangers.[7]<\/a> Fort Tilden not only served as a location to store weapons and the missile system, but it was a training service for the Army and held apartments for veterans who need homes.[8]<\/a> Selvek presented her guidebook of Fort Tilden to showcase the forgotten history of how this base stored weapons to protect New Yorkers, especially veterans, from the Cold War.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Selvek, Christina and John Auwaerter, \u201cCultural Landscape Report for Fort Tilden,\u201d EFU.EDU, 1<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Selvek, Christina and John Auwaerter, \u201cCultural Landscape Report for Fort Tilden,\u201d EFU.EDU,<\/em> 42<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Selvek, Christina and John Auwaerter. \u201cCultural Landscape Report for Fort Tilden,\u201d EFU.EDU, <\/em>99<\/p>\n

[8]<\/a> Selvek, Christina and John Auwaerter. \u201cCultural Landscape Report for Fort Tilden,\u201d EFU.EDU, <\/em>43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another defense that was used to protect soldiers and civilians from the Cold War hostilities was Fort Tilden, which is in the Queens borough of New York (40\u00b033’42.2″N 73\u00b053’43.2″W). This base was established in 1917, as a \u201charbor defense of New York.\u201d[1] In the Fort Tilden guidebook, Christina Selvek wrote that Fort Tilden was originally …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4744,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,4,5],"tags":[322,55,325,326,99,140],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cold-war-new-york","category-neighborhoods","category-tours","tag-cold-war","tag-defense","tag-fort-tilden","tag-missile","tag-new-york","tag-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}