Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A Forgotten History

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  • Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A Forgotten History Book Detail

  • Author : Miriam Sicherman
  • Release Date : 2019-11-18
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 160
  • ISBN 13 : 1467144312
  • File Size : 34,34 MB
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Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A Forgotten History by Miriam Sicherman PDF Summary

Book Description: 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 the name of progress, in 1936. 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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