Getting to North Brother Island has all the trappings of secretive exclusivity. You’ve got to get invited, sign a waiver, meet in an out-of-the-way spot in Hunts Point and charter a boat just to ...

North Brother Island in New York City served as a quarantine zone for patients infected with deadly diseases such as smallpox ...

North Brother Island in New York served as a quarantine zone for those infected with deadly diseases such as typhoid and ...

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 ...

It's a speck on a city map, and chances are you've never stepped onto North Brother Island, 22 acres off the South Bronx near Rikers Island. You may not have even heard of it.

North Brother Island is a 20-acre speck off the Bronx in the East River. It opened, in the 1880s, as a quarantine site, where the city shipped and shut away the sick. The hospital converted to a ...

North Brother Island is a 22-acre piece of land in New York City that has been abandoned since 1963. The island, which is next to the infamous Rikers prison, was a quarantine location 150 years ago.

North Brother Island, along with the nearby South Brother Island, eventually fell into private ownership and in 2009 were reacquired by the city of New York. The island is now used as a sanctuary ...

North Brother Island Gantry Isolated from the city by water, North Brother Island was entirely reliant on boats for the transportation of supplies and people until its abandonment in 1960.