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Barren Island, Brooklyn, the Glossary

Barren Island is a peninsula and former island on the southeast shore of Brooklyn in New York City.^[1]

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Arcadia Publishing

Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Association of Writers & Writing Programs

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit literary organization that provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 500 college and university creative writing programs, and 125 writers' conferences and centers.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Barrier island

Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast.

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Beachcombing

Beachcombing is an activity that consists of an individual "combing" (or searching) the beach and the intertidal zone, looking for things of value, interest or utility.

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Bergen Beach, Brooklyn

Bergen Beach is a residential neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Bergen Beach, Brooklyn are former islands of New York City, islands of Brooklyn, islands of New York City and neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Biodegradable waste

Biodegradable waste includes any organic matter in waste which can be broken down into carbon dioxide, water, methane, compost, humus, and simple organic molecules by micro-organisms and other living things by composting, aerobic digestion, anaerobic digestion or similar processes.

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Boroughs of New York City

The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn Eagle

The Brooklyn Eagle (originally joint name The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat, later The Brooklyn Daily Eagle before shortening title further to Brooklyn Eagle) was an afternoon daily newspaper published in the city and later borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, for 114 years from 1841 to 1955.

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Brooklyn Public Library

The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Canarsee

The Canarsee (also Canarse and Canarsie) were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.

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Caste

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Charles Gibbs

Charles Gibbs (November 5, 1798 – April 25, 1831) was the pseudonym of an American pirate, born James D. Jeffers.

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City of Greater New York

The City of Greater New York was the consolidation of the City of New York with Brooklyn, western Queens County, and Staten Island, which took effect on January 1, 1898.

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Clarence Chamberlin

Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (November 11, 1893 – October 31, 1976) was an American pioneer of aviation, being the second man to pilot a fixed-wing aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to the European mainland, while carrying the first transatlantic passenger.

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Coney Island

Coney Island is a neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Coney Island are barrier islands of New York (state), former islands of New York City, islands of Brooklyn, islands of New York City and neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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David B. Hill

David Bennett Hill (August 29, 1843October 20, 1910) was an American politician from New York who was the 29th governor of New York from 1885 to 1891 and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1892 to 1897.

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Dead Horse Bay

Dead Horse Bay is a small body of water off Barren Island, between the Gerritsen Inlet and Rockaway Inlet in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Dead Horse Bay are Gateway National Recreation Area.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Dutch language

Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Fish oil

Fish oil is oil derived from the tissues of oily fish.

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Flatbush

Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Flatbush are neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Flatbush Avenue

Flatbush Avenue is a major avenue in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn.

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Flatlands Avenue

Flatlands Avenue is a major street in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Flatlands, Brooklyn

Flatlands is a neighborhood in the southeast part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Flatlands, Brooklyn are neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Floyd Bennett Field

Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Floyd Bennett Field are Gateway National Recreation Area.

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Fresh Kills Landfill

The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering in the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States.

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Fultonhistory.com

Fultonhistory.com (also known as Old Fulton New York Postcards) is an archival historic newspaper website of over 1,000 New York newspapers, along with collections from other states and Canada.

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Garbage scow

A garbage scow is a large watercraft used to transport refuse and waste/garbage across waterways.

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Gateway National Recreation Area

Gateway National Recreation Area is a U.S. National Recreation Area in New York City and Monmouth County, New Jersey.

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Gerritsen Creek

Gerritsen Creek is a short watercourse in Brooklyn, New York City, that empties into Jamaica Bay.

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Incineration

Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials.

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Industrial complex

The industrial complex is a socioeconomic concept wherein businesses become entwined in social or political systems or institutions, creating or bolstering a profit economy from these systems.

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Jacob Riis Park

Jacob Riis Park, also called Jacob A. Riis Park and Riis Park, is a seaside park on the southwestern portion of the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Jacob Riis Park are Gateway National Recreation Area.

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Jamaica Bay

Jamaica Bay (also known as Grassy Bay) is an estuary on the southern portion of the western tip of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Jamaica Bay are Gateway National Recreation Area.

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Jetty

A jetty is a structure that projects from land out into water.

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Jewish Book Council

The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew), founded in 1944, is an American organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature.

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John Francis Hylan

John Francis Hylan (April 20, 1868January 12, 1936) was the 96th Mayor of New York City (the seventh since the consolidation of the five boroughs), from 1918 to 1925.

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John Purroy Mitchel

John Purroy Mitchel (July 19, 1879 – July 6, 1918) was the 95th mayor of New York, from 1914 to 1917.

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Land reclamation

Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds.

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Language change

Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, across a period of time.

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Lenape

The Lenape (Lenape languages), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.

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List of smaller islands in New York City

In addition to the three principal islands of New York City—Manhattan Island, Staten Island and part of Long Island—each borough contains several smaller islands. Barren Island, Brooklyn and List of smaller islands in New York City are islands of New York City.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Long Island are islands of New York City.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Manhattan are islands of New York City.

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Marine Park (Brooklyn park)

Marine Park is a public park located on Jamaica Bay in the neighborhood of Marine Park in Brooklyn, New York.

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Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge

The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge (originally and often referred to as the Marine Parkway Bridge) is a vertical-lift bridge in New York City, New York, that crosses Rockaway Inlet.

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Menhaden

Menhaden, also known as mossbunker and bunker and "the most important fish in the sea", are forage fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the order Clupeiformes.

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Mill Basin, Brooklyn

Mill Basin is a residential neighborhood in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Mill Basin, Brooklyn are former islands of New York City, islands of Brooklyn and neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Neponsit, Queens

Neponsit is a small affluent neighborhood located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the New York City borough of Queens.

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New Netherland

New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States of America.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Fire Department

The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) is the full-service fire department of New York City, serving all five boroughs.

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New York City Police Department

The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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New York State Department of Health

The New York State Department of Health is the department of the New York state government responsible for public health.

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Offal

Offal, also called variety meats, pluck or organ meats, is the internal organs of a butchered animal.

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Outer Barrier

The Outer Barrier, also known as the Long Island and New York City barrier islands, refers to the string of barrier islands that divide the lagoons south of Long Island, New York from the Atlantic Ocean. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Outer Barrier are barrier islands of New York (state).

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Panic of 1893

The Panic of 1893 was an economic depression in the United States that began in 1893 and ended in 1897.

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Plumb Beach, Brooklyn

Plumb Beach (sometimes spelled "Plum") is a beach and surrounding neighborhood along the north shore of Rockaway Inlet, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Plumb Beach, Brooklyn are Gateway National Recreation Area and neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Port

A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.

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Province of New York

The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783.

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Queens

Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Radiation

In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or a material medium.

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Rendering (animal products)

Rendering is a process that converts waste animal tissue into stable, usable materials.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Rikers Island

Rikers Island is a prison island in the East River in the Bronx that contains New York City's largest jail. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Rikers Island are islands of New York City.

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Robert F. Wagner

Robert Ferdinand Wagner I (June 8, 1877May 4, 1953) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who represented the state of New York in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1949.

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Robert Moses

Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century.

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Rockaway Beach, Queens

Rockaway Beach is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Rockaway Inlet

Rockaway Inlet is a strait connecting Jamaica Bay, wholly within New York City, with the Atlantic Ocean.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn

The Diocese of Brooklyn (Diœcesis Bruklyniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state of New York.

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Salt marsh

A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.

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Secondary sector of the economy

In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing.

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Sewage treatment

Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges.

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South Shore (Long Island)

The South Shore of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, is the area along Long Island's Atlantic Ocean shoreline.

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State University of New York

The State University of New York (SUNY) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York.

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State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is a public research university in Syracuse, New York focused on the environment and natural resources.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York. Barren Island, Brooklyn and Staten Island are islands of New York City.

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Tidal creek

A tidal creek or tidal channel is a narrow inlet or estuary that is affected by the ebb and flow of ocean tides.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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WABC-TV

WABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the ABC network.

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Waste management

Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.

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Wisconsin glaciation

The Wisconsin glaciation, also called the Wisconsin glacial episode, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking more than 20,000 years ago.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barren_Island,_Brooklyn

Also known as Barn Island (Brooklyn), Barren Island (Brooklyn), Barren Island, New York, Bear's Island, Bearn Island, Bears Island, Bears' Island, Broken Lands, Equandito, Equendito, Equindito, South Flatlands.

, Manhattan, Marine Park (Brooklyn park), Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, Menhaden, Mill Basin, Brooklyn, National Book Award, National Book Award for Fiction, National Park Service, Neponsit, Queens, New Netherland, New York (state), New York City, New York City Fire Department, New York City Police Department, New York Public Library, New York State Department of Health, Offal, Outer Barrier, Panic of 1893, Plumb Beach, Brooklyn, Port, Province of New York, Queens, Radiation, Rendering (animal products), Republican Party (United States), Rikers Island, Robert F. Wagner, Robert Moses, Rockaway Beach, Queens, Rockaway Inlet, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, Salt marsh, Secondary sector of the economy, Sewage treatment, South Shore (Long Island), State University of New York, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Staten Island, Steamship, The Bronx, Tidal creek, United States, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, W. W. Norton & Company, WABC-TV, Waste management, Wisconsin glaciation.

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See also

Barrier islands of New York (state)

Former islands of New York City

Gateway National Recreation Area

Islands of Brooklyn

Islands of New York City

References