As they shelter in place from the coronavirus, New Yorkers’ homes have become their personal islands. But historically, NYC has quarantined its infected as far from its residential neighborhoods as ...

A fire destroyed two former hospital wards, a machine shop and the morgue on Swinburne Island. The federal government built Swinburne and Hoffman islands, located off South Beach, as quarantines for ...

Researchers from the New York Aquarium and Kingsborough Community College put to sea to count the number of harbor seals gathered off Swinburne Island, off Staten Island's east shore. If you purchase ...

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