About Washington Navy Yard
The Washington Navy Yard (WNY) is a ceremonial and administrative center for the United States Navy, located in the federal national capital city of Washington, D.C. (federal District of Columbia). It is the oldest shore establishment / base of the U.S. Navy, established 1799, situated along the north shore of the Anacostia River (Eastern Branch of the Potomac River) in the adjacent Navy Yard neighborhood of Southeast, Washington, D.C. Formerly operating as a shipyard since the end of the 18th century / beginning of the 19th century, and ordnance plant, the yard currently serves as home to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), commanding the U.S. Navy, and is headquarters for the several military agencies and commands of Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Reactors, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Naval History and Heritage Command, Navy Installations Command, the National Museum of the United States Navy, the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps, Marine Corps Institute, the United States Navy Band, and other more classified facilities. In 1998, the yard was also listed as a Superfund site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency due to the extreme environmental contamination over its two and a quarter centuries existence.
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Things to see nearby
- 1835 Washington Navy Yard labor strike
- Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command
- Naval Sea Systems Command
- National Museum of the United States Navy
- Trieste (bathyscaphe)
- Commandant's Office, Washington Navy Yard
- Washington Navy Yard shooting
- Naval District Washington
- Albi (restaurant)
- Navy Department Library
- The Yards (Washington, D.C.)
- Officers Quarters, Washington Navy Yard
- Latrobe Gate
- Washington and Georgetown Railroad Car House