Book Award Winner: Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward’s Island by Philip T. Yanos
Congratulations on your gold book award! Synopsis Ward’s Island in the East River sits just a short distance from Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx, yet it has been cordoned off from the rest of New York City. For nearly two centuries, it has been treated as a dumping ground for society’s most marginalized—the unhoused, recent […]