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Island paradise it’s not, but North Brother Island is the most arrestingly unique spot in the five boroughs. It housed drug-addicted teenagers and was where Typhoid Mary was kept.

North Sentinel Island, India. ... North Brother Island has a haunting history. Once the site of a quarantine hospital and later a rehabilitation center, it was abandoned in the 1960s.

Just across the water on North Brother Island, the remains of a hospital used to treat quarantined patients of diseases like typhus, smallpox, and tuberculosis, withers in decay. 4.