There's a mysterious, abandoned island less than a mile from Manhattan and almost no one is allowed to visit — here's what it's like
Inside buildings on North Brother Island.Graffiti on North Brother Island.Ivy on North Brother Island.
Rather than take the ferry each day, some hospital workers opted to live in the Nurse's Home. Bathtubs have fallen through the ceiling of the 40,000-square-foot Victorian-style mansion, which was built in 1905.Heating on North Brother Island.The Staff House.Further down the main road is the Male Dormitory.The dormitory became a nursery school for veterans' families who lived on the island during the post-World World II housing crisis, from 1946 through 1951.
Few animals seem to live here, and a Parks and Recreation official said that mammals are practically nonexistent — no rats, chipmunks, or mice.The largest building on the island was one of the last to be completed: the Tuberculosis Pavilion.It is a sprawling four-story, 83,000-square-foot building that was designed to house people sick with tuberculosis, but then World War II broke out.The $1.
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