Oliver Sacks
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Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
Sacks in 1985
Sacks in 2005
Sacks in 2009
Sacks in 2009
City Island, Bronx
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City Island is a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx, New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 miles long by 0.5 miles wide. City Island is located at the extreme west
Oliver Sacks
…life, beginning when his swimming-champion father started him swimming as an infant. He became well-known for open water swimming when he lived in the City Island section of the Bronx, as he routinely swam around the island or swam vast distances away from the island and back. He was also an avid powerlifter…
Aerial view of City Island (left) and Hart Island (right)
1884 nautical chart
Pelham Cemetery
Looking southwest at marina and distant Throgs Neck Bridge