Description: Brand New American LandmarksBrooklyn's Barren Islandby Miriam Sicherman 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: Burlington, Connecticut
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Book Title: Brooklyn's Barren Island : a Forgotten History
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.5in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Not Available
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
