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 in New York City served as a quarantine zone for patients infected with deadly diseases such as smallpox ...

North Brother Island is an enigmatic no man's land between the Bronx and Riker's Island. Matthew Schlanger, a Nyack, N.Y., resident with a sailboat and a keen sense of adventure, accompanied a ...

Like so many abandoned places, North Brother Island in the East River constantly draws the attention and fascination of urban explorers, and the fact that the 13-acre piece of land is closed to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

One of the last privately owned islands around the Bronx shoreline, South Brother Island, was bought by the city last week with $2 million in federal dollars. The island will be used as a bird refuge.