NYC's Last Great Secret: This Abandoned Island
Christopher Payne explores the uninhabited North Brother Island, which is falling into ruin.
In the past 50 years, North Brother Island has almost been entirely removed from the city's collective memory map. Located in the East River between the Bronx and Rikers Island, it has a history of housing people New York City couldn't or wouldn't accommodate: In the late 19th century, it was used to quarantine Typhoid Mary. Then it became a temporary home for World War II veterans. In the 1950s, it was a juvenile drug treatment center. It closed in 1963.
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