Brooklyn's Barren Island, New York, Landmarks, Paperback

Description: Brooklyn's Barren Island, New York, Landmarks, Paperback 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 African Americans quietly processed mountains of garbage and dead animals starting in the 1850s. They turned the waste into useful industrial products until their eviction by Robert Moses in 1936, all in the name of progress. Barren Islanders built businesses, fought fires, demanded a public school and worshipped at churches as they created a quintessentially American community from scratch. Author Miriam Sicherman tells the story of a Brooklyn neighborhood lost in the annals of New York City history.

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Location: Columbia, South Carolina

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MPN: 9781467144315

Book Title: Brooklyn's Barren Island : a Forgotten History

Item Length: 9in

Item Height: 0.5in

Item Width: 6in

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Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Subjects & Themes / Historical, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Publication Year: 2019

Genre: Photography, Architecture, History

Item Weight: 0.7 Oz

Number of Pages: 160 Pages