[Talk-us] New York, Ellis Island Boundary

[Luis Villa]

Possibly useful context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_v._New_York

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
wrote:

> On 5/10/15 11:57 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
> > On 5/10/15 11:31 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>    puzzled about
> >>
> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/37573502#map=18/40.69986/-74.03910
> >>
> >> is this really part of today's political boundary, then "(historical)"
> >> should perhaps be removed from the name. And is there any significance
> >> to the funny shape (an owl sitting on a branch?) or should it rather be
> >> aligned with the coastline?
> >>
> > this looks like a carve out, a tiny enclave of NYS/NYC surrounded by
> > New Jersey. i'll look at the newer TIGER data in a little bit and see
> > what i can see there.
> now that i have thought about it, Ellis Island is mostly fill. the
> political
> boundary likely matches the original waterline of the island and it
> was simply never changed. as it was operated by the Federal government,
> there was probably little motivation to do so.
>
> richard
>
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