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Barren Island, Brooklyn
Barren Island
was an island off the southeast shore of
Brooklyn
, in
Jamaica Bay
. Land filling was used to unite the island with mainland Brooklyn in 1926 for what became
Floyd Bennett Field
. The area is separated from the
Rockaway Peninsula
in
Queens
by the
Rockaway Inlet
. All of what was once was Barren Island is now part of the Jamaica Bay Unit of
Gateway National Recreation Area
, managed by the
National Park Service
.
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