Islands
- The Pelham Islands - The historical name for a group of islands uninhabited.
- The Blauzes
- Chimney Sweeps Islands
- City Island - The only inhabited island.
- Hart Island
- High Island
- Hunter Island
- Rat Island
- Twin Island
- North Brother Island
- South Brother Island
- Rikers Island – The location of New York City's prison.
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Famous quotes containing the word islands:
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)