Imagine that one of New York City's many islands became abandoned, and you came back to see what it looked like 50 years later. It’s hard to visualize. However, the place would likely be ...

In 1904, the ship General Slocum, crashed on the shores of North Brother Island. The resulting fire killed over a thousand people. It also was turned a place of quarantine against the spread of ...

you’ll have been much closer to a quarantine island than you realised. Sandwiched between the Bronx and the city’s notorious prison Rikers Island, North Brother Island was abandoned in 1963.

When she tested positive for typhoid bacteria, the Department of Health forcibly moved her to North Brother Island, a dot of land in the East River just off the Bronx that housed a quarantine ...