Fort Tilden, a former military base turned state park in Queens, NY is home to a stretch of beach where visitors turn small plots of sand into dwellings unique to this little section of the New York Coastline. As Fort Tilden Beach is not groomed, there is always an abundance of driftwood – the essential building material for the construction of beach forts. Fort builders flock here from all over the city and occasionally other countries to build these strongholds in the sand. These are their inhabitants.