Ellis Island public and the museum partially re-opened on October 28, 2013, after major renovations. Originally much of the west shore of Upper New York Bay consisted of large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster banks, a major source of food for the Lenape population who lived in the area prior to the arrival of Dutch settlers. There were several islands which were not completely submerged at high tide. Three of them (later to be known as Liberty Island, Black Tom Island and Ellis Island) were given the name Oyster Islands by the settlers of New Netherland, the first European colony in
Grindstone Island Jane's Bay) provided for visitors on Aunt Jane's Bay - some inlanders who live inland on the island park their vehicles along the road. There is a normal US postal service delivery route onto the island Monday through Saturday. The island also recently received street signs marking the island's few official unpaved roads. The people who live on this island are known to locals as "Islanders". The Grindstone Island Upper Schoolhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Grindstone Island is the fourth largest of the islands in the Thousand Islands region, measuring about long and