From the Brooklyn Aerie: September 11, 2012
• When the Dutch briefly regained control of the area from the British in the 1670s, they didn’t call New York by its old name of New Amsterdam, but rather by the name of New Orange, and the fort at the foot of the Battery they called Fort Hendrick.
• The latest annual bird count at Green-Wood Cemetery found 38 species including several such as a snow goose which had never been seen before.
• For the record — when Fort Hamilton was completed in 1831, its first garrison consisted of 52 men and two officers of Battery F of the Fourth U.S. Artillery Regiment.