Owners of the island tried to reinvent it as a rehabilitation camp for troubled teens, from 1952 through 1963. But patients didn't get the help they needed when returning home after three- to five ...

This is exactly what happened when photographer Christopher Payne visited North Brother Island, a 13-acre island between the Bronx and Riker’s Island that's been abandoned since 1963.

What has locals fired up are the plans for a vacant South Bronx storage facility that will now become home for asylum seeking men displaced from the troubled Randall’s Island migrant tent city ...

which sits between the South Bronx's industrial coast and Riker's Island Correctional Center - New York City's most infamous prison. Almost no one is permitted on North Brother Island and its ...