Fort Lafayette and Robert C. Kennedy

See the Fort?

No, I don’t mean Fort Hamilton on the other side . . . or the top of the bunker at Fort Wadsworth.

This is the closest you can get to Fort Lafayette from land . . .

at least, what’s left of it, where it once stood before it was dismantled to serve as the base for the Brooklynside tower for the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

And Robert Cobb Kennedy, he was a would-be arsonist  or maybe reckless jokester Confederate officer who was was tried, convicted, and hanged in Fort Lafayette  less than two months before the end of that war.

Do any readers have photos of the Fort before demolition?  It would have to be from the late 1950s or earlier.

Here’s more about the VZ Bridge.

All photos here by Will Van Dorp.