North Brother Island was once home to Riverside Hospital, which utilized the lack of bridge access to rather effectively quarantine smallpox patients among other communicable disease afflicted people. The island was also home to Typhoid Mary for the last few decades of her life until her demise in 1938. The 1950's saw the hospital transition over to a drug treatment facility until it's close in the 1960's. Now, the buildings and things left behind molder in the passing of time.
Dawn broke slowly over the crumbling remains on North Brother Island, the May sunlight weakly illuminating hospital structures. Shadows crept back as the architecture was exposed and sunlight flooded into stagnant rooms. Dust drifted, paint peeled, stairwells collapsed underfoot. Looking down from a rooftop, one could imagine how longer term patients could have felt so isolated on an island in the middle of New York City.
Dawn broke slowly over the crumbling remains on North Brother Island, the May sunlight weakly illuminating hospital structures. Shadows crept back as the architecture was exposed and sunlight flooded into stagnant rooms. Dust drifted, paint peeled, stairwells collapsed underfoot. Looking down from a rooftop, one could imagine how longer term patients could have felt so isolated on an island in the middle of New York City.
