New Steel City

New Steel City is comprised of three islands off the New Jersey Coast--Rayner Island, North Island, and Shuster's Island.

History
Of New Steel City's three islands, North Island is the oldest, originally founded by pirates as a place to hide from the authorities in 1666. While much of the area around it had already been colonized by the Dutch (comprising what was then known as New Netherland), the seas around the three islands were rough and dangerous enough for only the most skilled sailors to pass, making it an ideal hideaway for the more competent pirates. Shuster's and Rayner's Islands are named after two of the more foolhardy explorers who had tried (and failed) to land on the two South Islands. The city's name, New Steel City, is actually a corrupted form of calling it "Now Stolen City", which was the name given to it by the English when they eventually took over the island from the pirates (as an insult to the pirates who came before).