The New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the Corps office responsible for water resource development, navigation and regulatory work in northeastern New Jersey, eastern and south-central New York State, New York Harbor and Long Island, and parts of Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut. It is based at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.
Identity
- Name: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District
- Entity type: district office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a federal agency
- Office: Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, New York
- Category: Government and public sector
What the district covers
The district’s About page says its area includes more than 20 million people across 37 congressional districts. Its civil works projects cover 8 major river basins and Lake Champlain, the Port of New York/New Jersey, and 400 miles of coastline, along with environmental remediation planning and construction, response to military contingencies and civil emergencies, and regulation of impacts on wetlands and navigable waterways. The district is also responsible for design and construction at U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force installations in New Jersey, New York and Greenland, and provides real estate support to nearly 400 U.S. Armed Forces recruiting stations and military installations.
The district’s home page carried news items in 2026 on a ceremony marking removal of 1.3 million tons of accessible soils at the Maywood FUSRAP site in New Jersey, on a maintenance dredging project in the Hague Basin at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, and on a programmatic environmental assessment for the academy’s campus modernization plan.
Regulatory permits
The district’s Regulatory Division has jurisdiction over waters of the United States in New York and New Jersey. The Regulatory page says the program administers Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 103 of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act. Permit applications go through the Corps’ online Regulatory Request System, introduced in 2025. The page lists a regulatory phone line and email address, given under contact below.
How to verify this agency yourself
- New York District official contact page (address and phone numbers)
- About the New York District (official)
- New York District Regulatory Branch (official)
- Regulatory Request System (permit applications)
Location and contact
- Address (official contact page): U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 17-302, New York, NY 10278-0090
- Public Affairs Office (official contact page): +1 917-790-8007, email [email protected]
- Regulatory Permits main office (official contact and Regulatory pages): +1 917-790-8511, email [email protected]
- Website: nan.usace.army.mil
Last verified: November 6, 2026. Sources: nan.usace.army.mil contact, About, Regulatory and home pages.
Directory listing of a federal agency office. This is not an official government website, and permit questions should go to the district through the official channels above.
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