24 new york | august 19–september 1, 2019BY ROBERT SULLIVANUnearthing
New York’s
hidden
histories,
from buried
bodies
to heron
sanctuaries.
LONGISLANDSOUNDCHIMNEY SWEEPS
The site of big wrecks and small boating mishaps,
as in 1935, when rowboaters were hit by
a sudden gale. “Seven Marooned in Sound,”
ran the headline. Bits of Bronx bedrock, they
were once referred to as the Forgotten Islands.