> Are you saying there were fewer islands and more stacks in the past? was never a newyorker but did briefly visit the strand in ~2002, and from my fuzzy recol

> Are you saying there were fewer islands and more stacks in the past? was never a newyorker but did briefly visit the strand in ~2002, and from my fuzzy recollection (wasn't in the market for a book at the time) it was pretty much entirely all giant stacks.