13 Unknown Islands in NEW YORK CITY

[@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.

[@NickiBonickiGames]

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

[@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.

[@OscarsPlaces]

Finally something new in the old *NEW YORK*

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@dawnsparling6226]

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

[@allnyc3412]

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[@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?

[@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.

[@vees191]

Can see it and the airport, Citi field, and the tennis stadium from my window.

[@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.

[@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

[@c.hanley1423]

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

[@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.

[@TravelToTheWorldAaliyahtravel]

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

[@allnyc3412]

Thank you for tuning in!

[@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! :)

[@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? 🏚️📷

[@jimramberg7664]

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

[@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?

[@cindys2995]

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

[@oskarsrode2167]

Hart Island now has mass graves for corona victims.

[@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.

[@BillLykken]

Thank you for making this video.

[@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.

[@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!

[@Hajduk-Kralj]

Interesting the sickness and quarantine history of NYC.

[@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.

[@positivebuoyancy8841]

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

[@mikeokeeffe4692]

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

[@TheDataMaestro]

Great informative video!

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@MatthewCaban]

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

[@pavoutsinas]

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

[@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).

[@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.

[@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]

????😳😳🤔🤔🤔

[@apap7170]

Great stuff.

[@carrinejones7545]

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

[@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.

[@NicolasRositano22042417]

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

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Simply fascinating...

[@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!

[@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!

[@andya5068]

This is how many time she said birds 👇

[@GabrielTheMagolorMain]

This is so cool!

[@willyb8163]

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

[@seangerant653]

cool video !!

[@stevefrancois3658]

What about plum island?

[@dennishildner3414]

Plum island, gardeners island.

[@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.

[@timdivine]

what about staten island?

[@katherineburford7864]

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

[@JohnDaker_singer]

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

[@therockstandard3068]

Love it

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@LususxNaturae]

Once again I am flabbergasted

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@christinestange4813]

So interesting 👍

[@nypdbob]

Thank you

[@suzukibn1131]

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

[@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

[@jeahavvalentin980]

Cool 😎 video my fellow New Yorker

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@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?

[@dianaahrensmeier9430]

NYC... Mother of all cities.

[@vincentpinlac3606]

Not mentioned in the video is the Canarsie Pol.

[@yeahyeahboy4519]

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

[@LadyAdakStillStands]

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.

[@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.

[@jstantongood5474]

Cholera. Stress on the first syllable.

[@Livingfortomorrowtoday]

What about broad channel island

[@danabrichtova265]

N I C E 🇺🇲 I ❣️ NYC

[@michaeljmasseri973]

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

[@christine2166]

Mau Mau!!!

[@fixyourface9]

Belmont is not there anymore

[@AceHardy]

🌴☀️

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@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

[@Comdesron17]

what about City Island?

[@srfurley]

That was in the previous video about 7 larger islands.

[@HADJEE]

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

[@eggssunnysideup1301]

250,000 Boarder Jumpers 2019-2020

[@YoungHeartedSoul]

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

[@YoungHeartedSoul]

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

[@kostas6621]

Islands for the birds!! 😂😂😂😂

[@NiSt1975]

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

[@dx42]

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

[@dx42]

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

[@raulbatista4614]

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

[@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.

[@ThomasDeLello]

Welcome to Bird Sh*t Island...

[@ml.2770]

Send my cheque for 1000 dollars please.

[@thomaschurchwell5180]

they arent unknown

[@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

[@cryptotyc]

Hunters Island.

[@kidy1905]

Where my 1,000$ for fessing correct

[@cliftonparchment4498]

👍🏽👍🏽

[@allnyc3412]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@paddyneill1964]

Where's my $1000 ? 😉

[@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..🦩

[@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.

[@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 ?

[@f.s.deernbsnmsccp8641]

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

[@zacharyvalrie6504]

We need to petition these islands to stop using our taxes

[@tobuog9439]

Where my 1000$ At

[@kasheem1747]

Smh immigrants