Governors Island National Monument is located in New York, New York on 22 acres (89,000 m2) of Governors Island, a 172-acre (0.70 km2) island located few hundred meters off the southern tip of Manhattan at the confluence of the Hudson and East Rivers in New York Harbor.
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