The author of “Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A Forgotten History,” said that the immigrant and African-American workers who lived on the trash-filled island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were ...

In the early years of the 20th century, the tiny island off the coast of Brooklyn was a […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 91°F. Friday, June 13th 2025 ... Barren Island – the ...

Learn more about the community of Barren Island with a lecture at Williamsburg’s shrine to the unusual. The City Reliquary Museum is hosting Miriam Sicherman, author of Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A ...

Barren Island has been likened to “a scrotum hanging from the bottom of Brooklyn.” In the eighteen-fifties, the city began sending horse carcasses, slaughterhouse offal, and other troublesome ...