Goose Island is the name of an unincorporated community and several small, uninhabited islands in the U.S. state of New York.
The town of Goose Island, New York, is in Washington County.
Two of the islands by this name are in the Westchester County portion of Long Island Sound and in the Hutchinson River in the Baychester section of The Bronx. The Hutchinson River island is located between the Amtrak railroad bridge and the Hutchinson River Parkway bridge, and is part of Pelham Bay Park. It supports a colony of nesting wading birds.
Famous quotes containing the words goose and/or island:
“This is the priest all shaven and shorn
That married the man all tattered and torn”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 37–38)
“He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)