An abandoned quarantine island, in plain sight of New York City

A Edward Durell Stone ’s shake off away from Manhattan , Bronx , and LaGuardia Airport sits North Brother Island , an one - time quarantine facility that housed infectious someone like “ Typhoid ” Mary Mallon . The island has since been exile from the surrounding metropolis and left to nature .

Despite being in the East River ( and essentially next room access to Rikers Island),North Brother Islandhas been uninhabited since the Sixties ; it ’s soon used as a bird sanctuary by the New York City Parks Department . The island ’s buildings have been left to moulder for almost 50 years . Kingston Loungehas a detailed chronicle and many exposure of this abandoned facility :

locate in the Hell Gate , a particularly treacherous reach of the East River , North Brother was home to the quarantine hospital that put up Typhoid Mary , was the terminal destination of the General Slocum during its tragical final voyage , and was the internet site of an data-based drug treatment programme which failed due to corruption . Riverside Hospital , the name of the readiness on the island throughout its various incarnation , treated everything from variola major and leprosy to venereal disease and heroin dependence ; after the Second World War , it put up soldiers who were studying under the GI bill . The entireness of the island has been abandoned since 1963 ; over a XII buildings remain , in various body politic of disrepair .

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