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| The Other Islands of New York City, 2nd Ed. A History and Guide Sharon Seitz & Stuart Miller
This detailed guide and comprehensive history to forty islands tells their colorful, often lurid stories, and will give you a sense of how New York City's politics, population, and landscape have evolved over the last three and a half centuries. This updated second edition features new information on Governor's and Ellis Islands. Full of offbeat stories and little-known facts and legends, this is much more than a travel guide. "This is definitely a book I want for my shelf, next to The Encyclopedia of New York City."
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Experience a New York City most tourists, and even most natives, never see. Within the city's boundaries are dozens of islands-some famous, like Ellis, some infamous, like Rikers, and others forgotten, like North Brother. While the spotlight often falls on the museums, trends, and restaurants of Manhattan, the city's "other" islands, each with its own personality, offer the day-tripper everything from nature trails to military garrisons to sailing excursions.
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