Curtis Island News
There's No Sure Thing In Us Gambling
Saturday December 27, 1997
GOVERNORS Island is a teardrop-shaped blob of land off the south-east tip of Manhattan. Bought by the Dutch from Canarsee Indians in the 17th century for some axe-heads and beads, it was used until last year as a Coast Guard base. Since then its future has been unclear. But recently New York's eb
