Editing Fort Hamilton (section)

===Post World War II===
Shortly after World War II it was decided that gun coast defenses were obsolete. In 1948, the last coast defense gun was removed from Fort Hamilton.<ref name="oasis">{{cite web | last=Gogolak | first=E. C. | title=To Live in This Oasis, Money Won't Help, but a Uniform May | website=The New York Times | date=July 23, 2013 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/nyregion/money-wont-help-land-a-place-in-this-oasis-but-a-uniform-may.html | access-date=October 24, 2018}}</ref> A battery of four [[120 mm M1 gun]]s was at the fort 1952-54, part of the Cold War air defense system.<ref name=NAForts1/> In the late 1950s and early 1960s the now-disused gun batteries were demolished or buried for the [[Verrazano-Narrows Bridge]] and the [[Belt Parkway]].<ref name=NAForts1/>