Brooklyn's Barren Island: A Forgotten History

Unbeknownst to most of the city's inhabitants, a rural community of garbage workers once existed on a now-vanished island in New York City.

Barren Island was a swampy speck in Jamaica Bay where a motley group of new immigrants and Afri

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: History Press
Published: 11/18/2019
ISBN: 9781467144315
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d