What are the three islands of New York?

Answer 1

Manhattan Island, Staten Island, and Long Island.

New York City's five boroughs are located on three different islands as well as the mainland United States. Manhattan and Staten Island are each islands, Brooklyn and Queens occupy the western end of Long Island, and the Bronx is the only borough that is attached to the mainland.

Answer 2

It is hard to count exactly how many islands there are because they are difficult to define. Some, particularly in Jamaica Bay, are really islets, reefs, or bars. Many are artificial, created by landfill. Some have been joined to other bodies of land and have lost their individual identity. The largest are home to hundreds of thousands of people. Others are no more than a rocky scrap of land scarcely above water. Some have eroded, some have grown, several have disappeared, others are even now being built. During nearly 400 years of colonial, federal and state government, the smaller islands have had their names, usages, and physical dimensions changed according to the fashion and needs of the times.

Staten Island is in the bottom left-hand corner, nestled into the curve of New Jersey. Shaped like an upside-down pear, it is almost 14 miles long and roughly seven miles broad at its widest point. One of the five boroughs of New York City, it is defined on the west and north by the salt water estuaries of Arthur Kill and Kill van Kull and by Upper New York Bay. The Atlantic washes its south-southeast shoreline, while the mile-wide tidal strait know as "The Narrows" separates it from the borough of Brooklyn. There are several islands on the Atlantic shore of Staten Island, and several in the waters between Staten Island and New Jersey. Manhattan, another borough, is crowded onto the tip of a peninsula jutting south from the New York State mainland into Upper New York Bay. The Hudson River, separating the west side of Manhattan from New Jersey, is a true river. The East River, flowing between the east side of Manhattan and the borough of Queens, is actually another salt water estuary, or tidal strait, which varies in depth and narrowness by tidal fluctuations. The third waterway defining Manhattan is the Harlem River. The Harlem is also an estuary. It became a ship canal when Spuyten Duyvil Creek, a non-navigable stream in the northern section of what is now Manhattan, was filled in and a channel created to connect the Hudson River and Long Island Sound. Five hundred yards off the tip of Manhattan is Governors Island, the colonial watchdog of New York Harbor. Rich in history, it belongs to the U.S. government and was used for military purposes until the mid-1990's. Roosevelt Island, a former sandbar in the lower East River, 147 acres of residential and commercial use, adds another 8,000 people to the population of Manhattan. Further north, where the East River joins the Long Island Sound, are the islands of North Brother, South Brother and Rikers. There, also, at the juncture of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx, under the Triborough Bridge, are Randalls Island and Wards Island. The borough of the Bronx is north and east of Manhattan, separated from it by the Harlem River. The widest parts of the East River are at the southern edge of the Bronx while Long Island Sound touches its eastern shoreline. Although not an island, the Bronx has as much, if not more shoreline than any borough except Staten Island. In the Sound itself are Hart Island and City Island, plus smaller islands such as High Island, Twin Islands, Rat Island, Green Flats, Hog Island and several rocky islets. South of Long Island Sound, covering the western end of Long Island, are Queens and Brooklyn. The twenty square miles of Jamaica Bay and its sprawl of islands are surrounded by Brooklyn, South Queens, and the narrow peninsula of the Rockaways with an entrance to the Lower New York Bay. Here, too, are several islands near Sheephead's Bay. Brooklyn occupies the tip of Long Island. Governors Island, so close to Manhattan, is even closer to Brooklyn. They are divided by the Buttermilk Channel. The peninsula of Coney Island, protruding into the Lower New York Bay from the southwest corner of Brooklyn, was once an island. On the other side of Manhattan, near the New Jersey shore, are Ellis Island of Immigration fame and Liberty Island with its welcoming statue. These are in Upper New York Bay just north of Staten Island. ----

Answer 3

There are many islands in New York City. The five boroughs of New York City are situated on three different islands: Staten Island and Manhattan are both islands, and Brooklyn and Queens occupy the western end of Long Island. The Bronx is the only New York City borough that is on the mainland United States.

There are also dozens of tiny islands in the waterways that surround the city, such as Roosevelt Island, City Island, Randall's Island, Rikers Island, Governor's Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, Hoffman Island, North and South Brother Islands, and the Pelham Islands group (which includes City Island).

The most major of these are Roosevelt Island and City Island, which are fully-fledged residential communities. Roosevelt Island had a population of 12,000 as of 2007, and City Island had a population of 4,500 as of 2005.

Rikers Island is another major one. It is home to New York City's main jail complex, and houses 14,000 inmates and is staffed by 7,000 officers and 1,500 civilians.

Answer 4

The major islands are Long Island, Staten island, and Manhattan Island.

Answer 5

Manhattan, Staten, Long, Roosevelt, Rikers, City, Broad Channel, Goveners, North and South Brother.

Answer 6

There's a lot more than three. There's Long island, Staten Island, Governor's Island, Liberty Island, Riker's Island, City Island, to name just a few.

Answer 7

Long Island, Staten Island, and Manhattan