Governors Island open for tours

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | July 4, 2004| | Copyright

NEW YORK -- Perhaps the most remarkable thing about New York's newest tourist attraction is that New Yorkers want to go there.

Governors Island, a former Coast Guard facility located in New York Harbor, was opened for public tours last summer. The tours, led by National Park Service rangers, proved so popular that they are back this year, starting in late June.

Even those self-styled Gotham sophisticates who would never admit to having visited the Statue of Liberty or the top of the Empire State Building may have been overcome by curiosity about a 172-acre harbor island that was under their ...

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