Page 183 "...walked to Fort Hamilton, to Thomas's office."




Images  of the Verrazano Narrows, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, and Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn.

Clockwise from top left:  Aerial view of the Narrows; Ft. Hamilton Parkway; Verrazano Bridge; memorial site in Ft. Hamilton; entrance to the Ft. Hamilton Officers' Club;  Ft. Hamilton neighborhood; Main Gate to Fort Hamilton U.S. Army base; soldiers onboard the USS Maurice Rose (which, at the time the character Thomas was serving at Ft. Hamilton, was the USS Admiral Rodman); the battery at Ft. Hamilton.



Fort Hamilton as it is today:

From page 183 of the book:  "...I walked over to Union Square and took the F train to Brooklyn, got off at the end of the line, and walked to Fort Hamilton, to Thomas's office.  If I were to keep walking straight instead of turning toward Fort Hamilton, I would end up looking out at The Narrows, the strip of water connecting Upper New York Bay with Lower New York Bay, and across which spanned the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge."