New York City: Island
Places and attractions in the Island category
Categories
- Museum
- Park
- Church
- Theater
- Gothic Revival architecture
- Nightlife
- Art gallery
- Street
- Skyscraper
- Art museum
- Concerts and shows
- History museum
- Neighbourhood
- Synagogue
- Monuments and statues
- Historical place
- Shopping
- Bridge
- Specialty museum
- Neoclassical architecture
- Dancing
- Modernist architecture
- Art Deco architecture
- Music venue
- Cemetery
- Library
- Vernacular architecture
- Neo-renaissance architecture
- Music and shows
- Memorial
- Sacred and religious sites
- Square
- Beaux-Arts architecture
- Architecture
- Shopping centre
- Performing arts
- Romanesque revival architecture
- Modern art museum
- Concert hall
- Tower
- Sport
- Sport venue
- Romanesque architecture
- Cinema
- Amusement park
- Ship
- Greek Revival architecture
- Outdoor activities
- Entertainment
- Garden
- Universities and schools
- Golf
- Interesting neighbourhood
- View point
- Georgian architecture
- Restaurant
- Colonial revival architecture
- Science museum
- Sculpture
- Lighthouse
- Amusement
- Event space
- Forts and castles
- Postmodern architecture
- Art Nouveau architecture
- Amusement ride
- Lake
- Zoo
- Arenas and stadiums
- Temple
- Fountain
- Italianate architecture
- Department store
- City hall
- Cycling
- Bars and clubs
- Theme park
- Island
- Military museum
- Moorish revival architecture
- Victorian architecture
- James Renwick, Jr.
- Playground
- Field
- Historic walking areas
- Richard Upjohn
- Harbor
- Children's museum
- Piers and boardwalks
- Botanical garden
- Opera
- Civic center
- Bike path
- Comedy club
- Edward Durell Stone
- Building
- Market
- Natural attraction
- Beach
- Game and entertainment center
- Emery Roth
- Queen Anne architecture
- Dance studio
- Mosque
- Entertainment district
- Hiking trail
- National park
Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island is a narrow island in New York City's East River, within the borough of Manhattan. It lies between Manhattan Island to the west, and the borough of Queens, on Long Island, to the east.
Governors Island
Governors Island is a 172-acre island in New York Harbor, within the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located approximately 800 yards south of Manhattan Island, and is separated from Brooklyn to the east by the 400-yard-wide Buttermilk Channel.
Liberty Island
Famous place with the Statue of Liberty Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty, a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in 1886.
Rikers Island
Rikers Island is a 413.17-acre island in the East River between Queens and the Bronx that contains New York City's main jail complex.
U Thant Island
U Thant Island is a small artificial island or islet in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The 100-by-200-foot island, created during the construction of the Steinway Tunnel directly underneath, is the smallest island in Manhattan.
Swinburne Island
Man-made island for cholera quarantine Swinburne Island is a 4-acre artificial island in Lower New York Bay, east of Staten Island in New York City. It was used for quarantine of immigrants. Swinburne Island is the smaller of two nearby islands, the other being Hoffman Island to the north.
Shooters Island
Shooters Island is a 43-acre uninhabited island at the southern end of Newark Bay, off the North Shore of Staten Island in New York City.
Hoffman Island
Hoffman Island is an 11-acre artificial island in the Lower New York Bay, off the South Beach of Staten Island, New York City. A smaller, 4-acre artificial island, Swinburne Island, lies immediately to the south.
High Island
High Island is a small, uninhabited, privately-owned island, part of the Pelham Islands in the Bronx, New York City. It lies east of the north end of City Island between City Island Harbor and Pelham Bay in Long Island Sound.
City Island
City Island is a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx in New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 miles long by 0.5 miles wide.
Rat Island
Rat Island is a privately owned island in New York City. It is approximately 2.5 acres in size and located in City Island Harbor, which is a part of Long Island Sound. It is about halfway between City Island and Hart Island and south of High Island. It is one of the Pelham Islands.
Mau Mau Island
Mau Mau Island, also called White Island, is a small uninhabited island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Gerritsen Creek and Mill Creek in the Marine Park recreation area.
Canarsie Pol
Canarsie Pol is an uninhabited island south of Canarsie, Brooklyn in Jamaica Bay, New York City. It is part of Gateway National Recreation Area. Canarsie Pol is an irregular oval of about 300 acres.
Ruffle Bar
Ruffle Bar is a 143-acre island located in Jamaica Bay in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, off the coast of Canarsie. The island is part of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, and lies just east of the former Barren Island, where Floyd Bennett Field is now located.
Prall's Island
Prall's Island is an uninhabited island in the Arthur Kill between Staten Island, New York, and Linden, New Jersey, in the United States. The 89-acre island is one of the minor islands that are part of the borough of Staten Island in New York City.
Hart Island
Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City.