Twenty minutes northeast, in the Long Island Sound we have David's Island, location of the former Ft. Slocum. Every few years the city of New Rochelle/county of Westchester/or some developer express and interest in doing something with this abandoned island.
I've heard it is now home mostly to rats (makes Canada geese sound like a more desirable tenant). It has a colorful past as an army base/staging area, potential Con Ed nuclear plant site, a potential Trump mariana development, and even a WWII POW holding area.
All we see now from the beach clubs on the New Rochelle shoreline are overgrown grasses and the shells of some buiding and unusable docks. Another island, just minutes from downtown NYC.
See post 15.