13 Unknown Islands in NEW YORK CITY

PART ONE: 7 Islands Worth Visiting in NEW YORK CITY
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1. “PSM V28 D467 New york east river” by unknown - public domain - Wikimedia Commons
2. “Mill Rock Island in New York City” by kschlot1 - CC BY 2.0 - Wikimedia Commons
3. “Mill Rock Park Island 100_1270.JPG” by Charles Smith - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
4. “Mill Rock Island” by Kevin - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
5. “Old Mill, Gorham, ME” by unknown- public domain - Wikimedia Commons
6. “Mill Rock Park Island 100_1271.JPG” by Charles Smith - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
7. “Canada Goose, Branta canadensis 100_1269.JPG” by Charles Smith - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
8. “U Thant Island” by MatthewLloyd - CC BY-SA 4.0 - Wikimedia Commons
9. “Sad little U Thant Island / Belmont Island” by WorldIslandInfo.com - www.worldislandinfo.com/ - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
10. “U Thant Island, East River” by WorldIslandInfo.com - www.worldislandinfo.com/ - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
11. “UThantIsland” by Pacific Coast Highway - public domain - Wikipedia
12. “U Thant Island from West” by farawayman - CC BY-SA 3.0 - Wikimedia Commons
13. “U Thant and John F. Kennedy” by unknown - public domain - Wikimedia Commons
14. “Out From Underground” by Eden, Janine and Jim - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
15. “UN Building” by Matt Clare - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
16. “Eastern Great Egret (Ardea alba modesta) 100_1201.JPG” by Charles Smith- CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
17. “Shooters Island jeh” by Jim.henderson - public domain - Wikimedia Commons
18. “Towing 'Empire Clough' to the fitting out quay” by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - no known copyright - Flickr
19. “Shooters Island” by Decumanus - CC BY-SA 3.0 - Wikimedia Commons
20. “080521-G-8732C-020” by Coast Guard- US Government - no copyright - Flickr
21. “NYC Audbon Seal-Watching Eco Cruise” by Kristine Paulus - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
22. “Nypl.digitalcollections.510d47e1-281b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001” by (unknown) NYPL - public domain - Wikimedia Commons
23. “Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island 1911” by Chris - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
24. “Ellis Island Public Health Service Physicians” by NIAID - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
25. “Immigrant Station, Ellis Island, with ferry docked at adjace...” by NYPL - no copyright - Flickr
26. “Hoffman Island - Immigrants from smallpox ship held for observation” by Library of Congress - public domain - Wikimedia Commons
27. “Crematory oven - Flossenbürg” by Oxfordian Kissuth - CC BY-SA 3.0 - Wikimedia Commons
28. “Quarantined on Hoffman Isl. (LOC)” by The Library of Congress - no copyright restrictions - Flickr
29. “Quarantine station, Hoffman Island, NYC- group of immigrants amid buildings LCCN2016647961” by Library of Congress - public domain - Wikimedia Commons
30. “Quarantined children of cholera victim (LOC)” by The Library of Congress - no copyright restrictions - Flickr
31. “Immigrants from a smallpox ship, held in custody for observation, behind wire fence, Hoffman Island, N.Y.” by Library of Congress - public domain - www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b12...
32. “City Hospital, 1922” by Seattle Municipal Archives - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
33. “Swinburne Island” by Ray - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
34. “Arthur Kill Pralls Island” by dsearls - CC BY-SA 2.0- Wikimedia Commons
35. “AW Bash and daughter Cora Clementine and man viewing oat field in salt marsh area on the Bash farm at Oak Harbor, Whidbey Island (WASTATE 596)” by University of Washington - no copyright - Wikimedia Commons
36. “Gerritsen Beach” by Allison Meier - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
37. “4.22.14 Kayak Paddle (9)” by Isles Yacht Club - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
38. “Riverside Hospital” by reivax - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
39. “Riverside II” by reivax - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
40. “North Brother Island” by H.L.I.T. - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
41. “Nerons” by Tony Hisgett - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
42. “North Brother Island Caretaker's House” by Julie McCoy (Kayak Cowgirl) - CC BY-SA 4.0- Wikimedia Commons
43. “Mary Mallon in hospital” - public domain - Wikimedia Commons
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[@steves1749]

Hart Island management was transferred to the NYC Parks Dept several days ago. And will now be more accessible to the public. Once they figure out the transportation access logistics.

[@allnyc3412]

Oh wow, what great timing! Thanks for the update and for tuning in.

[@barbie5697]

Why would the public want to go to Hart Island?

[@charly3091]

@@barbie5697 for the same reason people visited cemeteries, life is life.

[@danwallach8826]

I don't think Rikers inmates do the burials anymore, either.

[@kentbbates]

Hart island was also a city prison and a Nike missile base. Rat island really doesn’t cover at high tide, as a kid my friends and I swam there from Bown st beach, and I used to dive there for lobsters. Great memories growing up on city island. High island at one time was residential with several private homes.

[@gorillaump5869]

"Nothing here but birds" sounds like " move along folks, nothing to see here" during a massive train wreck hauling UFOs and alien bodies.

[@suzukibn1131]

Gorilla UMP WHAT

[@mitchellasaro3181]

Except that the attraction there at Shooters Island is the boat graveyard almost surrounding its coast but also towards Staten Islands close shores. A beautiful sight strangely looked over in this vid.

[@dawnsparling6226]

I'm pleased these islands are left to the birds!

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@EverythingLittleOne]

This is so cool something i would really love to visit rather than the usual places

[@Tabby.cat2]

Everything Little One, “nope, nothing to see here, it’s uninhabitable for humans...just a bunch of mating birds on an island where an hospital housed those with small pox” 😉!!!

[@Jack-lw9rp]

Why? There's nothing but birds

[@ncisfan78]

You are not alone. I have been interested in the little islands in NYC since I first learned about North Brother Island. I didn’t know there were so many of these

[@OscarsPlaces]

Finally something new in the old *NEW YORK*

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@BillLykken]

Thank you for making this video.

[@alexanderordinary2110]

AAAAAnd now, these islands are the safest places in NYC!!!

[@GabrielTheMagolorMain]

LOL 🤣😢

[@michaeljmasseri973]

Lmao!

[@apap7170]

That's funny 😂

[@StamfordBridge]

Except that NYC has a remarkably low crime rate.

[@TheDataMaestro]

Great informative video!

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@apap7170]

Great stuff.

[@TravelToTheWorldAaliyahtravel]

Wow! thanks for your beautiful video. my favorite city😍 one day I will be visit here inshallah

[@allnyc3412]

Thank you for tuning in!

[@shazzabelle123]

Really love your videos - especially all the history. I was waiting for you to talk about City Island - though I know it is not obscure. I saw a movie by the same name with Andy Garcia (great quirky movie) which was the first time I had heard of it. It looks like a very delightful place to live.

[@allnyc3412]

Hi. City Island was mentioned in my previous video (a link to that one is in the description). Thanks for tuning in!

[@shazzabelle123]

ALL NYC perfect! I watched it. Are you a native New Yorker?

[@therockstandard3068]

Love it

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@cindys2995]

The owner of Rat Island is probably living there now. Birds and their doo-doo seem like good neighbors at this time!

[@GabrielTheMagolorMain]

This is so cool!

[@DashingDesignDiva]

You can see North Brother Island and his little brother at a cool lil park called Barretto Park in the Bronx. They have some plaques about Typhoid Mary and some other cool tidbits. Decent views of Queens and Rikers Island and sometimes in the summer The Floating Pool Lady docks there. Used to me and my dog’s favorite place, but then we moved to Brooklyn.. it’s worth paying a visit.

[@christinestange4813]

So interesting 👍

[@seangerant653]

cool video !!

[@c.hanley1423]

Depressing that these islands are off-limits. The narrator has a gorgeous voice, though.

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Simply fascinating...

[@oskarsrode2167]

Hart Island now has mass graves for corona victims.

[@mikeokeeffe4692]

0:15 looks like shes standing up on the receding water as it runs back to sea - pretty cool

[@nypdbob]

Thank you

[@andrewfischer8564]

i have a boat in these waters... i love giving the "tour" im going to steal your material.

[@ajc414]

Can you drop me off at North Brothers Island for a couple hrs? 🏚️📷

[@marcspector9188]

Awesome video! i was trying to find an additional island, and I came up with the island that Meadowmere Park is located on. But technically Meadowmere park is in Nassau and therefore on Long island, and Meadowmere, Queens adjacent to it is of course in NYC, but its not an island. So, I guess as for now your list is exhaustive! Maybe we'll get another Hurricane (Sandy) (hopefully not, though) which might CREATE some more islands. Again, great stuff! :)

[@Hajduk-Kralj]

Interesting the sickness and quarantine history of NYC.

[@Tommykey07]

Several years ago my son and I paddled around North Brother Island and landed on South Brother Island to take a break. I plan to paddle to Middle Rock this year.

[@MatthewCaban]

Similar to Mau Mau, isle of meadows occasionally has kayak tours if you sign up with the parks dept

[@LususxNaturae]

Once again I am flabbergasted

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@lisaharrington6488]

I am glad there are so many green spaces for birds only in New York. I am guessing they contribute at least a small part in trying to clean the air there.

[@fcdphilly]

arrrgh! that background music!!! Interesting video despite that. I grew up in Arrochar, just west of South Beach, and could see Hoffman & Swinburne from my house (never knew what they were for or that they were artificial).

[@AceHardy]

🌴☀️

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@carrinejones7545]

Ever since they put a seastreak to Rockaway park i noticed a small island between Rockaway park and new jersey.

[@vilstef6988]

North Brother Island was where the burning steamboat, General Slocum was beached. The Slocum is the worst maritime disaster in NYC history, and was the worst loss of life prior to 911!

[@docmccoy95]

On August 27, 1967, a small private airplane crashed into the radio tower on High Island, destroying the antenna and taking WCBS and WNBC off the air, the day before WCBS's all news format launched.

[@jimramberg7664]

One minor gripe : cholera is pronounced collar-ra Keep up the good work

[@jamesstewart628]

Computer voice

[@scoutosaurus3473]

Every one of these islands are on my list to get permission to go there I’m an avid bird watcher and I’m not even 13 yet

[@pavoutsinas]

I met Alex , owner of Rat island. Great guy!

[@xrisamoukou959]

Hello there, amazing video. However, u miss one. FISHER'S ISLAND !!! I am from GREECE, but I visit NYC 5 years ago and I felt in love since then. I'd like to go back and live there someday. Fisher's Island is in the border of Long Island and Connecticut.

[@arifakyuz7673]

Now Hart island is being used to bury those who died from COVID-19

[@ohioalarms8364]

Arif Akyuz has been potters field forever

[@barbie5697]

Since 1869.

[@MuddinNYC]

@@ohioalarms8364 They have been burying people with no relatives there since the 19th century. It's the city's go to for homeless burials.

[@vikingwoman1988]

COVID corpses should be burned

[@srfurley]

There was a shock, horror story about this in the British press. As if the island hasn’t been used for burial for a very long time.

[@mjnyc8655]

How about the Jamaica Bay islands?

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in! Feel free to list them if you'd like.

[@frankch28]

I know of Broad Channel because there's an A train station on the island. It has a few homes and businesses. Most of the land it's for a bird refuge.

[@mjnyc8655]

@@frankch28 How about Canarsie Pol, Ruffle Bar, Little Egg Marsh and Rulers Bar Hassock?

[@positivebuoyancy8841]

3:39 Whoa. The residents burned down their hospital in order to stop an outbreak.

[@christine2166]

Mau Mau!!!

[@danabrichtova265]

N I C E 🇺🇲 I ❣️ NYC

[@hhvictor2462]

You missed 'Goose Island' on the Hutchinson River. It's by Section 5 in Co-op City, Bronx

[@cryptotyc]

and Hunters Island, off Co-op City

[@RAHMELL91]

????😳😳🤔🤔🤔

[@angelaregina3612]

High island had a caretaker in the 90s....I was on it and got poison ivy hanging out with my friend who was the daughter of the caretaker. Beautiful location!

[@dennishildner3414]

Plum island, gardeners island.

[@HesJustSteven]

You missed one, 14 would've been Goose Island in the Bronx, it's in the Hutchinson River between the neighbourhood of Co-op City and Pelham Bay Park.

[@bxbeautynyc]

They say that's Westchester County. Just lies outside the border

[@bxbeautynyc]

@@falcoperegrinus82 son, can't you read? Its just outside the border in New Rochelle. Do your research!

[@katherineburford7864]

City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum is a place to visit.

[@dianaahrensmeier9430]

NYC... Mother of all cities.

[@NicolasRositano22042417]

Can we have the same energy as this video but we’re talking about the subway system

[@vincentpinlac3606]

Not mentioned in the video is the Canarsie Pol.

[@suzukibn1131]

Interesting. Very interesting. PS. COLL-er-a

[@willyb8163]

1500 homeless or otherwise unidentified bodies a year, you know a few of them got made in chicken nuggets

[@timdivine]

what about staten island?

[@andya5068]

This is how many time she said birds 👇

[@cliftonparchment4498]

👍🏽👍🏽

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@comingoutofhibernation2122]

To the viewer: let me save you some time. They're overglorified gravelbars, #11 is the only one you can (maybe) visit, and there's nothing to see there other than the unmarked graves of the poor. And birds having sex with each other.

[@jeahavvalentin980]

Cool 😎 video my fellow New Yorker

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@yeahyeahboy4519]

which is the island where the guy lived and operated one the first catalogs.

[@Tabby.cat2]

I’m surprised I didn’t see Fantasy Island in the line up...although I could’ve sworn I saw Tatoo 🤪😋!!! #theplane ✈️

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in! Though I'm curious to know where exactly did you see him?

[@dondom1312]

What would happened if you go to one of this little islands with a small boat or something? Because i think there isn't Security or Police 24/7. So is there a way to go there even if its not allowed? And what would be the consequences? Would be interesting to me.

[@stevefrancois3658]

What about plum island?

[@jstantongood5474]

Cholera. Stress on the first syllable.

[@eggssunnysideup1301]

250,000 Boarder Jumpers 2019-2020

[@MadDog6945]

I guessed bird sanctuary. Where's my $1000?

[@NiSt1975]

Goose island in The Bronx just outside of section 5 of co op city contact me for pictures

[@mrerok]

Didn't think you were gonna name mau mau. Their was always rumors that people grew pot on it and it was guarded by wild dogs. Regardless I still had to get there and did and found neither. Their used to be a bridge to it but the last pieces of it were taken down.

[@AdakStillStands]

That's a fair amount of taxpayer supported (for the most part) islands for citizens to be restricted from. Good for mini-parks for boating & picknicking during daylight hours only by permit.

[@Livingfortomorrowtoday]

What about broad channel island

[@Comdesron17]

what about City Island?

[@srfurley]

That was in the previous video about 7 larger islands.

[@fixyourface9]

Belmont is not there anymore

[@HADJEE]

I'll take an e-transfer any time you are ready.

[@kostas6621]

Islands for the birds!! 😂😂😂😂

[@michaeljmasseri973]

What is sad commercial in the middle of this. Little Ellie with leukemia

[@wendyb6446]

LOL I am from NYS. Mosquitos mosquitos mosquitos They come out abut 8 pm no matter where but abound all the time, along with black flies EVERYWHERE there is brush and tress like this. LOL

[@cryptotyc]

Hunters Island.

[@dx42]

"The southern train?". No, not a term.

[@YoungHeartedSoul]

@1:03 Negro point? I doubt that would fly in todays google maps.

[@jamesstewart628]

I never heard it pronounced quite that way.

[@YoungHeartedSoul]

James Stewart look at the top right hand on the legend number 1.

[@rafsanAhmed93]

They are wasting some of this islands by not letting people go there. Some of those islands have reach history let students faculty, history lovers ghost hunters go there

[@williamkuryaki]

Who wants to go to rat's island??

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

Illya K me! I’d love to see the pile of poo..

[@raysolace3508]

I guarantee someone lives on one of these islands,just away from a the nonsense

[@stevensterbinsky8232]

There are over i million bodies buried on Hart Island. Some other facts. During the "Cold War" there were Nike Ajax missile silos. It was also training grounds for "Colored Troops in 1864. It has been a prisoner of war camp during the Civil war. Also NYC prison, drug program ETC. There is a nice story on Wikipedia about the island.

[@ThomasDeLello]

Welcome to Bird Sh*t Island...

[@raulbatista4614]

Had to be the islands int the Bronx to be named "Brothers"

[@thomaschurchwell5180]

they arent unknown

[@dx42]

"KOL-era", not ""Kol_ERA".

[@biggee8111]

Why do they call it RAT ISLAND (as if I didn't know.)

[@allnyc3412]

There were too many unconfirmed reasons to list. Thanks for tuning in!

[@fishfire_2999]

Wuhan island ?

[@paddyneill1964]

Where's my $1000 ? 😉

[@f.s.deernbsnmsccp8641]

LUCKY BIRDS ! they own properties in NYC , because theses Islands , are all “ LEFT TO THE BIRDS!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kingfeeq]

I would like to buy an island 🌴

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

Yes I too would like to buy an island..🦩

[@youngdrey1]

Why can’t they build homeless shelters on the islands

[@rasheedvankmin9462]

Youngdrey south Memphis lmaoooo bruh theyll be so messy, fuck no

[@danwallach8826]

No fresh water. No sanitation. Operating costs would horrify the taxpayers.

[@ml.2770]

Send my cheque for 1000 dollars please.

[@kidy1905]

Where my 1,000$ for fessing correct

[@zacharyvalrie6504]

We need to petition these islands to stop using our taxes

[@tobuog9439]

Where my 1000$ At

[@kasheem1747]

Smh immigrants