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"Is NYC An Island? New York Geography + Island Hopping Guide". Jessie on a Journey | Solo Female Travel Blog "23 New York State Islands You Have to Visit". www.iloveny.com. 2024-05-10. Retrieved 2024-07-25. Auma, Quinter (2022-07-29). "10 Amazing Islands In New York You Can Actually Visit". TheTravel. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
In addition to the three principal islands of New York City—Manhattan Island, Staten Island and part of Long Island—each borough contains several smaller islands. New York City contains about 36 to 42 islands in total. [1]
Fire Island is the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the South Shore of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. Occasionally, the name is used to refer collectively to not only the central island, but also Long Beach Barrier Island , Jones Beach Island , and Westhampton Island , since the straits that separate ...
Just Room Enough Island, also known as Hub Island, [1] is an island located in the Thousand Islands chain, in New York, United States. The island is known for being the smallest inhabited island, which appears to be around 3,300 square feet (310 m 2), or about one-thirteenth of an acre. Purchased by the Sizeland family in the 1950s, the island ...
Breaker Island, formerly two islands called Culyer and Hillhouse, it is a former island within the town of Colonie, New York and the village of Menands, New York, filled in by the construction of exit 7 of Interstate 787 with NY Route 378, Hudson River remains on east bank and various creeks, ponds, small lakes, and marshes on the west side
Pollepel Island has been called many different names, including Pollopel Island, Pollopel's Island, Bannerman's Island, [1] and Bannermans' Island. [2] [3] Pollepel is a Dutch word meaning " ladle" The island is about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City [4] and about 1,000 feet (300 m) from the Hudson River's eastern bank. [3]
On June 8, 1881, North Brother Island was transferred to what was then part of New York County (later to become the Bronx). [10] On April 16, 1964, South Brother Island was also transferred to the Bronx. [11] The islands had been incorporated into Long Island City in 1870, [12] before the consolidation of New York City in 1898. [13]
Cedar Island, an island in the Great South Bay. Fire Island, a barrier beach island between the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, of which west of the Robert Moses Causeway, is within the confines of the Town of Babylon. Gilgo Island, an island in the western end of the Great South Bay. Grass Island, an island in the Great South Bay.