Barren Island, Brooklyn use as a garbage dump. Waste and animal carcasses from Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx was sent to Barren Island, while New York City's other two boroughs, Queens and Staten Island, had their own garbage disposal sites. The Sanitary Utilization Company disposed of glass bottles and other non-processable items on the northern coast of Barren Island. Some valuable trash, such as jewelry, also ended up on Barren Island. The island's residents did not mind the smell of the processed garbage. However, the incinerator's scents were so noxious that residents on "mainland" Brooklyn, away, could not stand the odors. In 1899,
Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal of the celebration of New York's 400th anniversary, as well as in honor of "the enduring relationship between New York and Holland." Notes Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal The Whitehall Terminal is a ferry terminal in South Ferry section of Lower Manhattan, New York City, at the corner of South Street and Whitehall Street. It is used by the Staten Island Ferry, which connects the island boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island. The Whitehall Terminal is one of the ferry's terminals, the other being St. George Terminal on Staten Island. The Whitehall Terminal originally opened in 1903 as a new