Brooklyn's Barren Island : A Forgotten History

Brooklyn's Barren Island : A Forgotten History

Miriam Sicherman

Språken
FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9781439668566

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 ani