One of the places the freshly recruited Nazi scientists would end up was…. LONG ISLAND. RIGHT ON OUR CITY'S DOORSTEP. Housed in Fort Strong and just out of public gaze, the scientists were smuggled onto the island in the dead of night. Living facilities were staffed by German POWs so that word of the operation would not spread to the mainland. Here, the scientists held debates and read papers, the constant chattering in German would lend the fort the nickname of “the German Hotel”.