South Brother Island
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The North Brother's sibling, South Brother Island, has an area of seven acres and is part of Queens. The island was once owned by the brewer Jacob Ruppert, who built a summer home there in 1894. It was destroyed by fire in 1907. The last private owner of the island was a sand company. Now densely overgrown, the island is owned by New York City.
www.nyc24.org/2003/islands/zone2/rikershistory.html
www.nyc24.org/2003/islands/zone2/rikershistory.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_and_South_Brother_Islands_(New_York_City)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°47'47"N 73°53'52"W
- Long Beach Island 120 km
- Wye Island 287 km
- Kent Island 288 km
- Middle Hooper's Island 341 km
- Bloodsworth Island 344 km
- South Marsh Island 350 km
- Smith Island, MD/VA 358 km
- Hog Island 403 km
- Cobb Island 416 km
- Smith Island, Virginia 439 km
- Mott Haven 2.1 km
- Ditmars-Steinway 2.2 km
- Astoria 3.4 km
- Flushing Bay 4.3 km
- Manhattan 6.4 km
- Western Queens 6.5 km
- The Bronx 7.7 km
- Queens 16 km
- The Palisades 20 km
- Long Island Sound 72 km