During her presentation she described Barren Island, which previously existed on the southeast shore of Brooklyn in Jamaica Bay and was situated between the mainline of Brooklyn and 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 ...

Brooklyn’s Barren Island is home to Floyd Bennett Field, New York’s first municipal airport, which was built in 1931. Sections of the site have been abandoned since the United States Navy ...

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 ...

Here's a hot tip: take a trip to a Brooklyn beach and paw through mounds ... Formerly part of Barren Island, Dead Horse Bay acquired its unsavory name in the 1850s, when it became the location ...

Brooklyn was of course home to Native Americans ... today’s Marine Park, and also at Barren Island and Bergen Beach. The Dutch arrived in the early 17th century. Ferries across the East River ...