are there any plants on the island?
Yes, there are fish rendering plants, as well as for fertilizer plants here.
Barren Island, Brooklyn
fish rendering plants, as well as for fertilizer plants
where did the barren island get its name from? A group of Lenape Native Americans referred to the archipelago of islands near it by a name alternatively transcribed as "Equandito", "Equendito", or "Equindito", which means "Broken Lands". what is the reason behind the decline of community over there? An effort was made to develop a seaport district, factories and turn the creeks along the coast into canals and part of the island to be used as parkland.
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Barren Island, Brooklyn [SEP] Fish-oil and fertilizer plants
The island's first main industrial use was for fish rendering plants, as well as for fertilizer plants that processed offal products. The fish rendering plants processed schools of menhaden, a type of fish that was caught off the coast of Long Island, and turned them into fish oil or scraps. Meanwhile, the fertilizer plants turned horse bones into glue, as well as fertilizer, buttons, and materials for refining gold and sugar. The plants processed almost 20,000 horse corpses annually at their peak, leading to the nickname "Dead Horse Bay" for the still-extant water body on the island's western shore, since the waste processors on the island would simply dump the processed waste into that bay.