South Brother Island (foreground), North Brother Island (background) On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum, an excursion vessel on the way to Long Island for a church picnic outing,…
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Smack in the middle of the East River, near the UN Headquarters, is an artificial island built in the 1890s. U Thant Island was named for the Burmese secretary-general of…