{"id":4573,"count":1,"description":"Governors Island is a 172 acres (70\u00a0ha) island in Upper New York Bay, approximately one-half mile (1\u00a0km) from the southern tip of Manhattan Island and separated from Brooklyn by Buttermilk Channel. It is legally part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The island was expanded by approximately 82 acres (33\u00a0ha) of landfill on its southern side when the Lexington Avenue subway was excavated in the early 1900s.\nFirst named by the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, it was called Noten Eylant (and later in pidgin language Nutten Island) from 1611 to 1784. The island's current name\u2014made official eight years after the 1776 Declaration of Independence\u2014stems from British colonial times when the colonial assembly reserved the island for the exclusive use of New York's royal governors.\nDefensive works were raised on the island in 1776 by Continental Army troops during the American Revolutionary War, and fired upon British ships before falling into enemy hands. From 1783 to 1966, the island...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/governors-island\/","name":"Governors Island","slug":"governors-island","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}