The Parks Department said Thursday that it is willing to explore the possibility of "limited" public access to North Brother Island, the 20-acre abandoned island off of the South Bronx that's been ...

A dramatic drone video shows the abandoned North Brother Island, in NYC's East River, one of the most mysterious places left in the city just off the Bronx.

To the Editor of The New York Times: My attention has just been directed to a letter printed in your issue of 16th inst. anent alleged conditions at North Brother Island.

North Brother Island, a 22-acre piece of land in New York City, has a long history that's checkered with disease, death, and decay.

Council Member Mark Levine has been awarded a $50,000 grant to study how to create environmentally sensitive accessibility to North Brother Island.

Get a scenic ferry ride along the Snake River and see an old cabin on Keefer's Island that once belonged to one of Idaho ...

Community mourns North Carolina firefighter Jaywon Lyons, who died during a family vacation in Turks and Caicos, remembered ...

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 ...

Imagine the stargazing at this adorable cabin on an island of its own.

A couple lost out the first time a cabin on Lake Minnetonka's Big Island was for sale, but they pounced when it was listed again.

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 ...

Inside North Brother Island, one of the spookiest remnants of New York’s past.