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:
“The captain was a duck
With a packet on his back,
And when the ship began to move
The captain said, Quack! Quack!”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 13–16)
“Beyond this island bound
By a thin sea of flesh
And a bone coast ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)