Definition of Sustainable Community What is a Sustainable Community? A sustainable community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy and resilient. It meets challenges through integrated solutions rather than through fragmented approaches that meet one of those goals at the expense of the others.
The remains of Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island, 2006. North and South Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City's East River between the Bronx and Rikers Island. North Brother Island was once the site of a hospital, but is now uninhabited and designated as a bird sanctuary. Until 1964, South Brother Island was part of Queens County (within Long Island City, beginning in 1870), but it is now part of Bronx County.
The Bimini Islands, sometimes called Bimini or the Biminis, are part of the Bahamas, a Caribbean island chain located just off the coast of Florida. The Bahamas are composed of about 700 islands, of which the two islands in the Biminis -- North Bimini and South Bimini -- are the closest to the United States.