Miller Field was a United States Army facility in the neighborhood of New Dorp, Staten Island, New York.

[2] When built in 1921, Miller Field was the only coastal defense air station in the eastern United States and was part of the network of fortifications around New York City.

A FDNY Engine Company, on the day of the disaster, rammed the gates of Miller Field, not waiting on members of the Military Police Corps (United States) to let them into the Base.

In the documentary film, Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig (2015),[3] the police recount the discovery, by a group of children at Oakwood Beach,[4] at Miller Field, of a box containing the remains of Andre "Angel" Melendez, in March 1996.

[5]) Melendez had been murdered by Alig and his roommate, Robert "Freeze" Riggs, his legs dismembered, and his upper body enclosed in a box they enjoined an unwitting taxi driver's help to transport and throw into the Hudson River, near Tunnel nightclub.