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 Rockaway ...

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 ...