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Islands in the City
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shazzabelle123

4y↑7

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.

shazzabelle123

4y↑2

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

ALL NYC

4y↑3

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

kent bates

3y↑3

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.

Steve Salem

4y↑23

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.

Barbie

4y↑3

Why would the public want to go to Hart Island?

ALL NYC

4y↑3

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

The Coffee loves Jazz

4y↑22

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

Artemis

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

Jack

4y↑1

Why? There's nothing but birds

Kimberly Terrell

4y↑1

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” 😉!!!

Marc Spector

2y↑2

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! :)

Jerseygirls1994

4y↑3

There are often harbor seals lounging on Swinburne Island!

Xrisa Moukou

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.

Jim Ramberg

4y↑8

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

James Stewart

4y↑1

Computer voice

Oscar's Places

4y↑11

Finally something new in the old NEW YORK

ALL NYC

4y↑1

Thanks for tuning in!

Gorilla UMP

4y↑32

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

mitchell asaro

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.

Ellen Ramsey

Gorilla UMP WHAT

Oskars Rode

4y↑9

Hart Island now has mass graves for corona victims.

C. Hanley

4y↑9

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

Doc McCoy

4y↑2

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.

Cindy S

4y↑4

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

Lisa Harrington

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.

Matthew Caban

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

George M

4y↑2

Great informative video!

ALL NYC

4y↑1

Thanks for tuning in!

Kimberly Terrell

4y↑2

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

ALL NYC

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

Travel To The World

4y↑3

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

ALL NYC

4y↑1

Thank you for tuning in!

MJ NYC

4y↑19

How about the Jamaica Bay islands?

MJ NYC

4y↑1

@FMC123 How about Canarsie Pol, Ruffle Bar, Little Egg Marsh and Rulers Bar Hassock?

FMC123

4y↑1

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.

ALL NYC

4y↑3

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

Dawn Sparling

4y↑35

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

ALL NYC

4y↑3

Thanks for tuning in!

Steven Francis Ouellet

4y↑1

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.

Jai Sarp

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

Jai Sarp

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

Alexander Ordinary

4y↑29

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

Ap Ap

That's funny 😂

Michael J Masseri

Lmao!

Gabriel The Magolor Main 👁

LOL 🤣😢

BillLykken

4y↑1

Thank you for making this video.

HH VICTOR

4y↑4

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

Rightous ONE

????😳😳🤔🤔🤔

cryptotyc

4y↑1

and Hunters Island, off Co-op City

Mike O'Keeffe

4y↑2

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

Angela Regina

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!

k98237

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.

Positive Buoyancy

4y↑3

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

Frank DiIorio

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).

U.S. (Ursine Supremacy)

4y↑3

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.

AJ’s Green Thumb, LLC

Simply fascinating...

Jamell Jones

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

MrE RoK

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.

Dashing Design Diva

4y↑1

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.

Hajduk

Interesting the sickness and quarantine history of NYC.

Christine Stange

So interesting 👍

Diana Ahrensmeier

4y↑1

NYC... Mother of all cities.

Panagis Voutsinas

4y↑5

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

Gabriel The Magolor Main 👁

This is so cool!

Nicholas Rositano

3y↑1

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

Willy B

4y↑4

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

Ap Ap

Great stuff.

dana brichtova

N I C E 🇺🇲
I ❣️ NYC

Sean Gerant

cool video !!

Katherine Burford

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

John Daker

4y↑2

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

Mochastar

4y↑1

what about staten island?

TheRockStandard

4y↑1

Love it

ALL NYC

Thanks for tuning in!

Vincent Pinlac

Not mentioned in the video is the Canarsie Pol.

Jeahav Valentin

4y↑2

Cool 😎 video my fellow New Yorker

ALL NYC

Thanks for tuning in!

Kostas

Islands for the birds!! 😂😂😂😂

Nicholas Stack

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

Andrew Fischer

4y↑5

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

Para Urbex

4y↑1

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

Zachary Valrie

We need to petition these islands to stop using our taxes

Arif Akyuz

4y↑39

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

Stephen Furley

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.

Mo Uddin

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

Barbie

4y↑2

Since 1869.

Ohio Alarms

4y↑1

Arif Akyuz has been potters field forever

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Christine

Mau Mau!!!

dennis hildner

4y↑1

Plum island, gardeners island.

Makoto Ren

4y↑1

Once again I am flabbergasted

ALL NYC

Thanks for tuning in!

YeahYeah Boy

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

Ellen Ramsey

4y↑2

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

ray solace

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

Comdesron17

what about City Island?

Stephen Furley

That was in the previous video about 7 larger islands.

Grim Reaper

Thank you

Geo M.

4y↑1

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

Geo M.

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

James Stewart

I never heard it pronounced quite that way.

Clifton Parchment

👍🏽👍🏽

ALL NYC

Thanks for tuning in!

Rafsan Ahmed

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

Thomas Churchwell

they arent unknown

BIG GEE

4y↑1

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

ALL NYC

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

Ace Hardy

4y↑1

🌴☀️

ALL NYC

Thanks for tuning in!

M L.

Send my cheque for 1000 dollars please.

FishFire_2

Wuhan island ?

Illya K

Who wants to go to rat's island??

cryptotyc

Hunters Island.

HADJEE

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

Thomas De Lello

Welcome to Bird Sh*t Island...

Raul Batista

4y↑1

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

Youngdrey south Memphis

4y↑1

Why can’t they build homeless shelters on the islands

Rasheed Vankmin

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

EGGS Sunnyside Up

250,000 Boarder Jumpers 2019-2020

Andy A

4y↑10

This is how many time she said birds

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KING FEEQ

4y↑2

I would like to buy an island 🌴

Kathy in Wonderland L.A.

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

ALL NYC

4y↑1

Thanks for tuning in!

Steven Sterbinsky

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.

Kid Y

Where my 1,000$ for fessing correct

wendy b

4y↑1

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