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.

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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 lies in the East River, between the Bronx and Rikers Island. Tours, like one the Daily News took Friday with Levine, Parks officials and other elected officials, are rare, and ...

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.

The small, hidden islands of New York City—places like U-Thant Island near the United Nations, or North Brother Island, made famous on an episode of Broad City—includes the appropriately named ...

North Brother Island was one of many institutions (public schools, asylums, hospitals, universities, prisons) erected in the late 19th century in New York City as a social buttress to counter the ...