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Public Affairs Detachment New York

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Date: November 30, 2011

Contact: Public Affairs

(212) 668-7114

Welcome to Coast Guard Sector New York

SECTOR NEW YORK (01-37040) 
212 COAST GUARD DR
STATEN ISLAND, NY 10305 
Primary Phone: 718-354-4037 
Emergency Phone: 718-354-4353 
Fax Number: 718-354-4009 

Homeport site: http://homeport.uscg.mil/newyork

Coast Guard Sector New York is the largest operational field command in the Coast Guard. Its area of responsibility stretches from Long Branch New Jersey to New York City up the Hudson River, to just south of Lake Champlain, up the East River to the Long Island Sound/Connecticut border.  The Sector itself is located on historical Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island.

More than 641 active duty service members, 77 civilians and 353 reserve personnel assist in carrying out the sector’s many missions which are: port waterway and coastal security; maritime security/law enforcement; port safety, prevention and compliance; marine distress response; commercial vessel inspection; waterways management; vessel traffic system and control; marine environmental protection; marine casualty investigation; merchant marine licensing; boating safety and anti-terrorism/force protection.

Sector New York has multiple units under its command including three small boat stations, two aids to navigation teams and eight cutters.



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