Neighborhoods in The Bronx - Islands

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:

    “we are so many
    and many within themselves
    travel to far islands but no one
    asks for their story....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “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)