Hart island was also a city prison and a Nike missile base. Rat island really doesn’t cover at high tide, as a kid my friends and I swam there from Bown st beach, and I used to dive there for lobsters. Great memories growing up on city island. High island at one time was residential with several private homes.

Hart Island management was transferred to the NYC Parks Dept several days ago. And will now be more accessible to the public. Once they figure out the transportation access logistics.

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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@barbie5697

4 жыл бұрын

Why would the public want to go to Hart Island?

@charly3091

Жыл бұрын

@@barbie5697 for the same reason people visited cemeteries, life is life.

@danwallach8826

11 ай бұрын

I don't think Rikers inmates do the burials anymore, either.

"Nothing here but birds" sounds like " move along folks, nothing to see here" during a massive train wreck hauling UFOs and alien bodies.

@suzukibn1131

4 жыл бұрын

Gorilla UMP WHAT

@mitchellasaro3181

3 жыл бұрын

Except that the attraction there at Shooters Island is the boat graveyard almost surrounding its coast but also towards Staten Islands close shores. A beautiful sight strangely looked over in this vid.

I'm pleased these islands are left to the birds!

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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This is so cool something i would really love to visit rather than the usual places

@Tabby.cat2

4 жыл бұрын

Everything Little One, “nope, nothing to see here, it’s uninhabitable for humans...just a bunch of mating birds on an island where an hospital housed those with small pox” 😉!!!

@Jack-lw9rp

4 жыл бұрын

Why? There's nothing but birds

@ncisfan78

2 жыл бұрын

You are not alone. I have been interested in the little islands in NYC since I first learned about North Brother Island. I didn’t know there were so many of these

AAAAAnd now, these islands are the safest places in NYC!!!

@GabrielTheMagolorMain

4 жыл бұрын

LOL 🤣😢

@michaeljmasseri973

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao!

@apap7170

3 жыл бұрын

That's funny 😂

@StamfordBridge

3 ай бұрын

Except that NYC has a remarkably low crime rate.

Finally something new in the old *NEW YORK*

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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The owner of Rat Island is probably living there now. Birds and their doo-doo seem like good neighbors at this time!

Thank you for making this video.

Great informative video!

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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Great stuff.

You can see North Brother Island and his little brother at a cool lil park called Barretto Park in the Bronx. They have some plaques about Typhoid Mary and some other cool tidbits. Decent views of Queens and Rikers Island and sometimes in the summer The Floating Pool Lady docks there. Used to me and my dog’s favorite place, but then we moved to Brooklyn.. it’s worth paying a visit.

Wow! thanks for your beautiful video. my favorite city😍 one day I will be visit here inshallah

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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Depressing that these islands are off-limits. The narrator has a gorgeous voice, though.

Love it

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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So interesting 👍

Really love your videos - especially all the history. I was waiting for you to talk about City Island - though I know it is not obscure. I saw a movie by the same name with Andy Garcia (great quirky movie) which was the first time I had heard of it. It looks like a very delightful place to live.

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

Hi. City Island was mentioned in my previous video (a link to that one is in the description). Thanks for tuning in!

@shazzabelle123

4 жыл бұрын

ALL NYC perfect! I watched it. Are you a native New Yorker?

cool video !!

This is so cool!

Simply fascinating...

i have a boat in these waters... i love giving the "tour" im going to steal your material.

@ajc414

4 жыл бұрын

Can you drop me off at North Brothers Island for a couple hrs? 🏚️📷

Hart Island now has mass graves for corona victims.

Thank you

Awesome video! i was trying to find an additional island, and I came up with the island that Meadowmere Park is located on. But technically Meadowmere park is in Nassau and therefore on Long island, and Meadowmere, Queens adjacent to it is of course in NYC, but its not an island. So, I guess as for now your list is exhaustive! Maybe we'll get another Hurricane (Sandy) (hopefully not, though) which might CREATE some more islands. Again, great stuff! :)

0:15 looks like shes standing up on the receding water as it runs back to sea - pretty cool

Interesting the sickness and quarantine history of NYC.

Similar to Mau Mau, isle of meadows occasionally has kayak tours if you sign up with the parks dept

I met Alex , owner of Rat island. Great guy!

On August 27, 1967, a small private airplane crashed into the radio tower on High Island, destroying the antenna and taking WCBS and WNBC off the air, the day before WCBS's all news format launched.

North Brother Island was where the burning steamboat, General Slocum was beached. The Slocum is the worst maritime disaster in NYC history, and was the worst loss of life prior to 911!

Several years ago my son and I paddled around North Brother Island and landed on South Brother Island to take a break. I plan to paddle to Middle Rock this year.

One minor gripe : cholera is pronounced collar-ra Keep up the good work

@jamesstewart628

4 жыл бұрын

Computer voice

arrrgh! that background music!!! Interesting video despite that. I grew up in Arrochar, just west of South Beach, and could see Hoffman & Swinburne from my house (never knew what they were for or that they were artificial).

Every one of these islands are on my list to get permission to go there I’m an avid bird watcher and I’m not even 13 yet

3:39 Whoa. The residents burned down their hospital in order to stop an outbreak.

Once again I am flabbergasted

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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Ever since they put a seastreak to Rockaway park i noticed a small island between Rockaway park and new jersey.

Hello there, amazing video. However, u miss one. FISHER'S ISLAND !!! I am from GREECE, but I visit NYC 5 years ago and I felt in love since then. I'd like to go back and live there someday. Fisher's Island is in the border of Long Island and Connecticut.

I am glad there are so many green spaces for birds only in New York. I am guessing they contribute at least a small part in trying to clean the air there.

🌴☀️

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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How about the Jamaica Bay islands?

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for tuning in! Feel free to list them if you'd like.

@frankch28

4 жыл бұрын

I know of Broad Channel because there's an A train station on the island. It has a few homes and businesses. Most of the land it's for a bird refuge.

@mjnyc8655

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankch28 How about Canarsie Pol, Ruffle Bar, Little Egg Marsh and Rulers Bar Hassock?

Now Hart island is being used to bury those who died from COVID-19

@ohioalarms8364

4 жыл бұрын

Arif Akyuz has been potters field forever

@barbie5697

4 жыл бұрын

Since 1869.

@MuddinNYC

4 жыл бұрын

@@ohioalarms8364 They have been burying people with no relatives there since the 19th century. It's the city's go to for homeless burials.

@vikingwoman1988

4 жыл бұрын

COVID corpses should be burned

@srfurley

3 жыл бұрын

There was a shock, horror story about this in the British press. As if the island hasn’t been used for burial for a very long time.

N I C E 🇺🇲 I ❣️ NYC

You missed 'Goose Island' on the Hutchinson River. It's by Section 5 in Co-op City, Bronx

@cryptotyc

4 жыл бұрын

and Hunters Island, off Co-op City

@RAHMELL91

4 жыл бұрын

????😳😳🤔🤔🤔

NYC... Mother of all cities.

High island had a caretaker in the 90s....I was on it and got poison ivy hanging out with my friend who was the daughter of the caretaker. Beautiful location!

City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum is a place to visit.

Not mentioned in the video is the Canarsie Pol.

Plum island, gardeners island.

Can we have the same energy as this video but we’re talking about the subway system

Mau Mau!!!

Interesting. Very interesting. PS. COLL-er-a

what about staten island?

You missed one, 14 would've been Goose Island in the Bronx, it's in the Hutchinson River between the neighbourhood of Co-op City and Pelham Bay Park.

@bxbeautynyc

4 жыл бұрын

They say that's Westchester County. Just lies outside the border

@bxbeautynyc

3 жыл бұрын

@@falcoperegrinus82 son, can't you read? Its just outside the border in New Rochelle. Do your research!

This is how many time she said birds 👇

👍🏽👍🏽

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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Cool 😎 video my fellow New Yorker

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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I’m surprised I didn’t see Fantasy Island in the line up...although I could’ve sworn I saw Tatoo 🤪😋!!! #theplane ✈️

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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What about plum island?

which is the island where the guy lived and operated one the first catalogs.

1500 homeless or otherwise unidentified bodies a year, you know a few of them got made in chicken nuggets

To the viewer: let me save you some time. They're overglorified gravelbars, #11 is the only one you can (maybe) visit, and there's nothing to see there other than the unmarked graves of the poor. And birds having sex with each other.

Cholera. Stress on the first syllable.

I guessed bird sanctuary. Where's my $1000?

What would happened if you go to one of this little islands with a small boat or something? Because i think there isn't Security or Police 24/7. So is there a way to go there even if its not allowed? And what would be the consequences? Would be interesting to me.

250,000 Boarder Jumpers 2019-2020

What about broad channel island

Didn't think you were gonna name mau mau. Their was always rumors that people grew pot on it and it was guarded by wild dogs. Regardless I still had to get there and did and found neither. Their used to be a bridge to it but the last pieces of it were taken down.

Belmont is not there anymore

That's a fair amount of taxpayer supported (for the most part) islands for citizens to be restricted from. Good for mini-parks for boating & picknicking during daylight hours only by permit.

Goose island in The Bronx just outside of section 5 of co op city contact me for pictures

LOL I am from NYS. Mosquitos mosquitos mosquitos They come out abut 8 pm no matter where but abound all the time, along with black flies EVERYWHERE there is brush and tress like this. LOL

Islands for the birds!! 😂😂😂😂

I'll take an e-transfer any time you are ready.

what about City Island?

@srfurley

3 жыл бұрын

That was in the previous video about 7 larger islands.

What is sad commercial in the middle of this. Little Ellie with leukemia

Hunters Island.

"The southern train?". No, not a term.

Had to be the islands int the Bronx to be named "Brothers"

@1:03 Negro point? I doubt that would fly in todays google maps.

@jamesstewart628

4 жыл бұрын

I never heard it pronounced quite that way.

@YoungHeartedSoul

4 жыл бұрын

James Stewart look at the top right hand on the legend number 1.

There are over i million bodies buried on Hart Island. Some other facts. During the "Cold War" there were Nike Ajax missile silos. It was also training grounds for "Colored Troops in 1864. It has been a prisoner of war camp during the Civil war. Also NYC prison, drug program ETC. There is a nice story on Wikipedia about the island.

Welcome to Bird Sh*t Island...

"KOL-era", not ""Kol_ERA".

Who wants to go to rat's island??

@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934

4 жыл бұрын

Illya K me! I’d love to see the pile of poo..

I guarantee someone lives on one of these islands,just away from a the nonsense

They are wasting some of this islands by not letting people go there. Some of those islands have reach history let students faculty, history lovers ghost hunters go there

Where's my $1000 ? 😉

Why do they call it RAT ISLAND (as if I didn't know.)

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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they arent unknown

I would like to buy an island 🌴

@allnyc3412

4 жыл бұрын

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@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I too would like to buy an island..🦩

Where my 1,000$ for fessing correct

Why can’t they build homeless shelters on the islands

@rasheedvankmin9462

4 жыл бұрын

Youngdrey south Memphis lmaoooo bruh theyll be so messy, fuck no

@danwallach8826

11 ай бұрын

No fresh water. No sanitation. Operating costs would horrify the taxpayers.

Wuhan island ?

LUCKY BIRDS ! they own properties in NYC , because theses Islands , are all “ LEFT TO THE BIRDS!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Send my cheque for 1000 dollars please.

We need to petition these islands to stop using our taxes

Where my 1000$ At

Smh immigrants