South Brother Island

South Brother Island

Coordenadas: 40°47′47″N 73°53′53″O / 40.79639, -73.89806

South Brother y North Brother Islands.

South Brother Island es una pequeña isla de 2,83 hectáreas situada en el East River, entre el Bronx y Rikers Island, en Nueva York. Está en el lado de la North Brother Island de la qué no la separan más que algunos centenares de metros; juntas las dos Brother Island tienen un área de 81423 m2. Hasta los años 1960, la isla formaba parte del distrito de Queens, pero hoy forma parte del distrito del Bronx. La isla ha sido privada mucho tiempo, y Jacob Ruppert, antiguo magnate de la cervecería y antiguo propietario del equipo de béisbol de los New York Yankees tenía una casa de verano, pero nadie ha vivido en la isla desde entonces, y no existen más viviendas. La isla es actualmente la propiedad de Hampton Scows, empresa con sede en Long Island, que paga rigurosamente las tasas de propiedad cada año, pero no tiene ningún plan para renovar la isla.[1] La empresa había adquirido la isla por la suma de 10 dólares en 1975.[2] [1]


La isla recubierta de matorrales y de un bosque denso protege diferentes especias de pájaros, como los martinetes comunes entre otros.[3]

Referencias

  1. a b «City Claims Final Private Island in East River», New York Times, November 20, 2007. Consultado el 26-05-2008. «South Brother Island, seven acres of dense forest, bittersweet vines, flocks of wild birds and little else, is a speck in the East River — and a glimpse of what the rest of the city might have looked like thousands of years ago.»
  2. «New York's South Brother Island to be a sanctuary», New York Newsday, 2007. Consultado el 26-05-2008. «The island, an overgrown, uninhabited piece of land battered by wind in the East River, was sold to the investment group Hampton Scows Inc. by the city in 1975 for $10. Now the federal government is purchasing it from the group for $2 million, a markup of 20 million percent, and turning it over to the city's Parks Department.»
  3. «So, You Were Expecting a Pigeon?; In City Bustle, Herons, Egrets and Ibises Find a Sanctuary», New York Times, December 4, 2003. Consultado el 21-08-2007. «By contrast, South Brother and its bigger sibling, North Brother Island, have resisted such an invasion. North Brother's vegetation -- a jungle of thick brush, low trees and tangled bittersweet vines set among the ruins of a dozen quarantine and hospital buildings -- has produced a secure haven for the black-crowned night heron, the city's most populous heron species. More than 230 crude nests of sticks and twigs were counted there last June.»

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