11 Aug There Is A Tiny Island In New York City That Nobody Is Allowed To Visit

Discovering new places on planet Earth is an exceedingly rare and exciting phenomenon. There’s a telling generational quote that crops up a lot on Reddit: “I was born too late to explore the frontier, and too young to explore the stars.”

No longer! There’s a man-made island in the middle of Manhattan’s East River, just south of the tip of Roosevelt Island, and it has a crazy history, shifting between wildly different ownerships and names since the 1800s.

The island has had connections with the 2004 Republican Primary, a small sect of Buddhist monks, and the creation of the 7 train tunnel between Manhattan and Queens. Today, it’s called U Thant Island, and there’s a reason for the strange name.

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