One of the last privately owned islands around the Bronx shoreline, South Brother Island, was bought by the city last week with $2 million in federal dollars. The island will be used as a bird refuge.

It's a speck on a city map, and chances are you've never stepped onto North Brother Island, 22 acres off the South Bronx near Rikers Island. You may not have even heard of it.

North Brother Island, a 22-acre piece of land in New York City, ... Leaving from Barretto Point Park in the South Bronx is one of the quickest ways to get there. Leaving the Bronx.

The city owns the 22-acre (8.9 hectare) plot of land in the East River, which sits between the South Bronx’s industrial coast and Riker’s Island Correctional Center – New York City’s most ...