With a new study to explore opening North Brother Island, here are our favorite secrets of this mysterious, abandoned island in NYC's East River.

Attendees are taken alongside East River islands including North and South Brother Islands, which are sanctuaries today Classic Harbor Line. Before Ruppert bought the island, it is believed to ...

North Brother Island, ... New York City owns the 22-acre plot, which pokes out of the East River between the South Bronx's industrial coast and a notorious prison: ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article. Though occupied by human activity for over 100 years, the abandoned North and South Brother Islands of New York City’s East River have since been ...

The islands were the sites of Babe Ruth's batting practice, the deadliest American disaster of the 20th century and the hospital where Typhoid Mary was quarantined.

A 22-acre isle in the East River off the South Bronx, North Brother, or NBI, is long abandoned and off-limits. Earlier this month, the City Parks Department accepted my request to visit as part of ...

North Brother Island is located in New York 's East River between The Bronx and Rikers Island, home to the metropolis' largest prison.But despite being a stone's throw from the US' biggest city ...

I first learned about North Brother in 2004, when I was commissioned to photograph industrial sites along the East River by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.

This project is a proposal for an inclusionary learning school for Autistic children on North Brother Island – an abandoned medical facility in New York’s East River. Since 1885, the a 20-acre ...

In anticipation of the long-awaited reopening, here’s the best of everything new in New Zealand—hotels, restaurants, and attractions—to know about for your return to the island nation.

North Brother Island is situated in the Hell Gate, a treacherous section of the East River between The Bronx and Riker’s Island. ... The main road running north to south through the island is ...