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	Staten Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located on an island of the same name on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor.
		Staten Island is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull.
		The island was probably abandoned later, possibly because of the extinction of large mammals on the island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Staten_Island (3173 words)

	Hoffman Island U. S. Maritime Service Training Station
		Hoffman Island also holds the distinction of being a Maritime Service "guinea pig." It was the first station to give its men classes in night lookout work and about two years ago a number of Dutch soldiers received gunnery training on the island.
		Hoffman Island is part of the defense system of New York, with its personnel responsible for manning a battery of guns at one end of the base.
		Hoffman Island's history goes back to 1872 when she was constructed by the City of New York to house a quarantine station.
	www.usmm.org /hoffmanisland.html (1823 words)

	Hoffman Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The latter island, also of artificial origin, was originally called Dix Island, but was renamed in honor of Dr. John Swinburne (May 30, 1820-April 4, 1889), a noted military surgeon during the (A war between factions in the same country) Civil War.
		In 1961 all existing buildings on Hoffman Island were razed, and since then trespassers have been apprehended on the island from time to time, including one celebrated incident in which a film crew was caught shooting a (additional info and facts about pornographic) pornographic movie there.
		This plan was never implemented either, and today both islands stand forlorn and forgotten, except for the many (Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs) seagulls that use the islands for mating.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/hoffman_island.htm (335 words)

	Encyclopedia: Staten Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Verrazano Narrows Bridge and Staten Island, New York at dawn The Verrazano Narrows Bridge (often written as the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge) is a suspension bridge that connects the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City at the Narrows, the reach connecting the relatively protected upper bay...
		Pralls Island, in the Arthur Kill, is shown in red Pralls Island is an uninhabited island in the Arthur Kill between Staten Island, New York and Linden, New Jersey in the United States.
		The eastern end of Shooters Island (background, forested) as seen from the waterfront of Staten Island Shooters Island is a small uninhabited island at the southern end of Newark Bay, along the north shore of Staten Island.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Staten-Island (10028 words)

	Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society: vascular flora of Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, New York Harbor, New York1, ...
		Hoffman and Swinburne Islands are both located in New York Harbor (40 35'N Latitude, 74 4' W Longitude) approximately 1.5 kilometers east of Staten Island, New York.
		Hoffman Island (4.0 hectares), the larger of the two islands, is located approximately 1 kilometer northwest of Swinburne Island (1.0 hectare) (Sietz and Miller 1996).
		Hoffman and Swinburne Islands were deeded back to the federal government in 1972 as part of Gateway National Recreation Area, a 10,522 hectare park, the country's first and largest urban National Park.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4017/is_200201/ai_n9035149 (1526 words)

	ipedia.com: Staten Island Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Staten Island is both the name of an island on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor as well as the name of the one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States.
		As an island, it is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull.
		The highest point on the island, the summit of Todt Hill elevation 410 ft (125 m), is also the highest point in the five boroughs.
	www.ipedia.com /staten_island.html (1801 words)

	Staten Island on the Web: History
		By 1994 there were approximately 1300 pairs of wading birds on Shooters Island (43 acres), Prall's Island (80 acres), and the Isle of Meadows (101 acres).
		The Borough of Richmond is officially renamed the Borough of Staten Island.
		Prall's Island in the Arthur Kill is acquired by the New York City Parks system as an 80-acre bird sanctuary.
	www.nypl.org /branch/staten/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=962&template=timeline5 (1423 words)

	Ellis Island Quarantine, New York – Hoffman Island
		The Hoffman Island hospital wards and the rooms set apart for those accompanying the sick are places of speckled enamel, fresh coatings of paint, and whiffs of disinfectant.
		At the boat landing on the island is a big plaza, paved with cement, which is used by the children who are not ailing for a playground.
		Within the last few years the island has been more than doubled in area by the making of land about the hospital and detention buildings, and there is plenty of room for tents, should epidemics in foreign lands fill incoming ships with ailing passengers and tax the capacities of the island to the utmost.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~quarantine/hoffman1.htm (2115 words)

	Afloat with the Family \| Beat Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Steve Hoffman said the restaurant boat is small and therefore difficult to navigate in bad weather, so the restaurant is open regularly on Saturday and Sunday, but depends on the weather conditions.
		Hoffman, a St. Pete Beach firefighter for the South Fire Station when he’s not grilling up burgers, noticed the restaurant docked at the marina across from the station and couldn’t resist checking it out.
		Linda Hoffman quit her job as a social worker to take her place behind the counter of the restaurant.
	www.poynterextra.org /pointssouth/2001/fellows/_project5wfellows/gelpi.htm (679 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| ISLAND JUSTICE by Elizabeth Winthrop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bur when she meets Sam, the island naturalist, and a dead body rolls up on her beach, she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into the complex world of the island's winter community.
		A beautifully observed novel in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Alice Hoffman, Island Justice sets Maggie's struggle to trust the pulls of her heart against the backdrop of a community intent on pursuing its own unique brand of justice.
		In Island Justice, the author seems to be presenting us with two women in different stages in their lives.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/island_justice.asp (683 words)

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		The Island was sparsely occupied by the Lenape Indians of the Delaware Tribe.
		Staten Island is remote and sparsely populated because of its island terrain -- yet it is adjacent to the world's greatest city.
		Overland roads led to ferries which joined the Island to its neighbors across the waters in Brooklyn and New Jersey, but it was only in the third decade of the 20th century that the Island's bridges were constructed.
	www.nypl.org /branch/staten/history/siphototour.html (4335 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Alice Hoffman
		Born in New York City, and raised on Long Island, Alice Hoffman graduated from Adelphi University and received an M.A. from Stanford University, where she was a Mirrielees Fellow.
		Now that Alice Hoffman has published her fourteenth novel, BLUE DIARY, The Book Report Network sent Senior Writer Jana Siciliano to speak with her about her long-lived career, her fairy tale worlds and the realities of illness and loss in everyday life.
		Find out what inspired Hoffman's new gem, hear about her intense rose research --- all forgotten after the fact --- the fairy tales she loves, the controversial book she is in the midst of writing, and more.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-hoffman-alice.asp (4704 words)

	Long Island History: The 1892 Cholera Panic
		Incoming ocean liners are quarantined and steerage passengers are offloaded to quarantine hospitals on Hoffman and Swinburne Islands in Lower New York Bay.
		Steerage passengers were transferred to Hoffman Island and put under observation; six cholera cases among them were put in the hospital at Swinburne.
		The "cholera folks" on the Cepheus tried to land at a dock on the bay side of the island on the 12th, but they were opposed by an angry crowd of about 400 men who had sailed across the bay in a militant armada.
	newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-past711,0,5538679.story?... (1116 words)

	Axoplasm: Fishing for Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The island sits on a long, shallow shelf that receives the seasonal Pacific and deep Bering upwellings, as well as silty currents from the delta.
		The important birding season was late spring through summer, when migratory seabirds came to nest on the sea cliffs on the western edge of the island (figure 3).
		On Nunivak Island, Lantis (1986) describes ethnographic fishing techniques that do not emphasize netting, principally riverine fishing with stone weirs and traps, and hook-and-line fishing from canoes (in the summer) or through holes in the ice (in the winter).
	www.axoplasm.com /archaeology/fishing (5226 words)

	Raritan Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The stone wall perimeter is evidence of the small coastal defense battery that was formerly located here, as well as a military prison and a quarantine station.
		South of the island, between Hoffman and Swinburn, is a shallow area known as West Bank Shoals.
		Swinburn Island contains abandoned buildings that were once a quarantine detention station, a crematorium and a pesthouse.
	www.serve.com /~kyc/keyport/raritan.htm (402 words)

	New York Books - Richmond County
		Later renamed the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, the institute is among the nation's oldest general-interest museums.
		The major-league team was brought to Staten Island by entertainment promoter Erastus Wiman, and the Mets were expected to become the magic bullet that attracts loads of basball fans - and their dollars - to the Island.
		June 13, 1889 Staten Island was connected to the mainland with the opening of the first railroad bridge, a masonry structure which spanned the Arthur Kill from Howland Hook to Elizabeth.
	www.timevoyagers.com /bookstore/NewYork/counties/richmond.htm (5813 words)

	Time Out New York [features] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A few months ago, he called to tell me that he'd learned a little about his island: It is called Hoffman, was formed in the 1860s out of sand dredged from New York Harbor and had functioned as a quarantine spot for immigrants during the first part of the 20th century (see TONY 346).
		Passing the curve of Staten Island that forms the harbor, we could see lower Manhattan framed by the graceful arc of the Verrazano.
		The sides of the island had been fortified with rock to protect against either tides or trespassers, so we had to clamber over the concrete roof of a collapsed building to reach solid ground.
	www.timeoutny.com /features/350/350.kayak.html (859 words)

	Fairways & Greens - Golf, Travel & Lifestyle News
		Ancil Hoffman is one of the most well-conditioned muni tracks in Northern California.
		Though Cherry Island is the most “remote” track of the county trio, it still does “about 60,000 rounds a year,” according to Oliver (both Ancil Hoffman and Mather log about 76,000 rounds).
		At Ancil Hoffman, for instance, a new fleet of golf cars are equipped with club/ball washers, as well as sand and seed bottles.
	www.fairwaysgreens.com /article.asp?articleID=21 (857 words)

	Ancestors: Immigration Records- Main Page/Cathy's Story
		After a long silence Maria began to speak, saying that she had vague recollections of her mother and grandmother discussing Ellis Island, a baby who died there, and their longing to know where the baby was buried.
		She and her mother had stayed at the Hospital for Contagious Diseases on Hoffman Island, a small island located off of Staten Island.
		Although she never landed on Ellis Island, known both as a gateway to America and an island of tears, her name will be remembered on the Wall of Honor at Ellis Island.
	www.pbs.org /kbyu/ancestors/records/immigration (625 words)

	Keyport Yacht Club - Getting to KYC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		KYC is located on the southwest shore of Raritan Bay, southwest of New York Harbor's Lower Bay, and south of Staten Island.
		Do not attempt to sail between Hoffman Island and the smaller island to the south (Swinburn Island); there is some serious shoaling there.
		Be aware of some shoaling on the south shore of Staten Island east of the Great Kills mark.
	www.serve.com /kyc/club/howtoget.php (270 words)

	Rock Island, the island, History: Confederate Prison Camp
		(Slattery 2-4) The camp, rectangular shaped, was on the middle north side of the island with the barracks in 14 rows running East-West.
		Along with one of the worst winters on record in 1863-64, small pox, influenza, other diseases, and war wounds, the death toll at Rock Island amounted to 1,964 of the 12,000 prisoners during the camp’s existence.
		McClanahan is buried in the Confederate Cemetery in grave #1584.
	www.mvr.usace.army.mil /rockislandhistory/Prison.htm (1140 words)

	Hudson River Almanac: September 2004 Weekly Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One of the sites was Hoffman Island, 1.5 miles south of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which we watched from the South Beach boardwalk on Staten Island.
		Among the species nesting on the island were fl-crowned night herons, great egrets, and snowy egrets.
		For those of us who had seen only one side of Hoffman all season, it was like visiting the far side of the moon.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/hudson/sep041.html (2250 words)

	Tales of Hoffman Island Radio Association
		A social organization, Hoffman Island Radio Association is mainly composed of graduates, instructors and staff at Hoffman Island Radio School.
		Although HIRA is mainly a social organization, its membership is dedicated to preserving their memories of Hoffman Island Radio School and their service as radio operators in the Merchant Marine.
		Included, are uniforms worn at Hoffman Island, study manuals, FCC licenses, photo albums of almost all graduating classes (come, find yourself in one of them!), various uniform insignia, seamen wallets, training tapes, World War II posters, and many other items too numerous to list here.
	www.usmm.org /hoffman.html (781 words)

	Girl Scouts of Rhode Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Camp Hoffman is a magical place where girls and staff can work together towards common goals, feel safe, learn new skills, but most importantly make friends.
		Camp Hoffman will be a place where girls and staff are respected, encouraged, supported, challenged and inspired by our programs, our staff, our campers and our natural setting.
		Camp Hoffman is situated on 170 acres of pine groves, wooded trails, a large meadow and Larkin Pond.
	www.gsri.org /camphoffmanresident.shtml (498 words)

	Official Box Score :: Stanford 7, Long Island 3
		1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Hoffman, Katherine rf...
		Long Island IP H R ER BB SO AB BF ----------------------------------------------- Brown, Jackie.......
		Hoffman singled to third base, RBI; Brangham scored.
	gostanford.collegesports.com /sports/w-softbl/stats/030703aab.html (988 words)

	Talk Radio 540 am (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Island Talk 540 is Long Island’s "Information Highway", featuring news, talk, interviews, weather, and Long Island traffic reports every 10 minutes, and loads of additional Long Island information.
		The "Long Island Morning News" team includes long time Long Island radio personalities David Weiss, Amanda Clarke and News 12 Long Island meteorologist Rich Hoffman.
		America in the Morning includes up-to-the-minute coverage of breaking news, on-scene reports, and highly produced feature stories.
	www.islandtalk540.com /djs.htm (353 words)

	Ellis Island Quarantine, NY: Deaths in Quarantine, 1909-1911
		Most of these individuals were new immigrants en route to Ellis Island and, since they were ill with contagious diseases, they were removed from the ships in the outer harbor of the port of New York by the Medical Inspectors and transferred to these two hospitals.
		Eventually, their families would have been released from detention on Ellis Island and traveled on to their new homes, never knowing where their children or family members were buried.
		Both islands are located east of Staten Island and south of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the outer harbor of the port of New York.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~quarantine (756 words)

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