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NWS Forecast Office
Upton, New York

Dates	Location
Oct. 25, 1870 to May 29, 1871	Board of Underwriting Building 49 Wall Street NY, NY
May 29, 1871 to Mar. 15, 1895	Equitable Life Insurance Building 120 Broadway NY, NY
Mar. 15, 1895 to Oct. 16, 1898	Manhattan Life Insurance Building 66 Broadway NY, NY
Oct. 16, 1898 to Apr. 30 , 1911	American Surety Building 100 Broadway NY, NY
May 1, 1911 to Dec. 27, 1960	Whitehall Building 17 Battery Place NY, NY
Dec. 28, 1960 to Oct. 24, 1993	RCA/GE Building 30 Rockefeller Center NY, NY Mezzanine Level
Oct. 25, 1993 to Present	Brookhaven National Laboratory 175 Brookhaven Ave, Building NWS #1 Upton, NY (Long Island)

On February 9, 1870 President Ulysses S. Grant..

signed a joined resolution of Congress authorizing the Secretary of War to establish a national weather service.

This resolution required the Secretary of War.. "to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories..and for giving notice on the northern (Great) Lakes and on the seacoast by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms."

Dates	Department
1870 to 1891	War Department Signal Service U.S. Army
1892 to June 1940	Department of Agricultural Weather Bureau
July 1940 to September 1970	Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
October 1970 to Present	Department of Commerce National Weather Service

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Weather Bureau during World War II
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