“There is a forlorn little spit of land in the middle of the East River by the United Nations, called U Thant Island.”
“In 1977, a group of United Nations employees who meditated with Sri Chinmoy, a Queens-based mystic, had the island re-christened in honor of the Burmese diplomat U Thant, who was the third Secretary General of the world body from 1961 to 1971.”
