1) install cameras on the island.
2) tear off the landings and piers and close the island to the public – forever.
3) put the cameras online. Now everybody can verify the island is really vacated.
4) go back to calling the island “Nutten”.

Nutten (formerly Governors Island)
160-acre vacated island, cameras connected to free-access TV and web.
Kasper Kovitz 2009
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