Amazing Islands In New York

Around the turn of the last century or so 

the majority of what is now the city of New York was made up of islands 

that were heavily covered in vegetation and were dispersed along the coast of the northeastern United States. 

These densely forested New York Islands are eventually transformed into the concrete jungle 

that we know today as the city and the metropolis began to expand and take shape over time. 

To this day, however, each island of the city maintains its own unique flavour