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It's one of New York 's best kept secrets. Lying in plain sight of the city is an island which no one has inhabited for more than 50 years. Photographer Christopher Payne shares the secrets of North Brother Island.
Archival photographs and maps courtesy New York Correction History Society, New York City Correction Academy, New York Public Library, New York Municipal Archives, UCLA Department of Geography, Benjamin and Gladys Thomas Air Photo Archives, Fairchild Collection.
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True artist and poet. Thanks for this. It's a wonder nobody ever tried to squat there in all them years, seeing as New York is such a big city and expensive too. Fascinating
I was on brother island in the 1960s in a youth house we used to walk to the abandoned Hospital and wander around in it and all the stuff was there Gurney's carts beds chairs it was like the people vanished
and they did this mystery will now be solved and the Government and all its affiliates will be held accountable for their ways and actions toward the less desirables and the many MURDERS that were covered up here
Nevermind. I looked you up. you're dead.
Susann Thomas is it Hunted
I wish the video had mentioned that North Brother Island is a bird sanctuary now.
Wonderful video; spoken with a soft voice and quite clear I might add! Thank you from a former New Yorker!
It would be great for a set of zombie movie
I accept the challenge!!!
Absolutely fascinating, and hauntingly beautiful.
I hope they never rid of or restore this island. The way it's naturally decaying and being taken over by nature is beautiful. I'd love to visit.
Its already being destroyed
Amazing place...beautiful photography..
Your photos are fantastic!
Amazing
Beautiful place.
I accidentally found this place on Google Earth, it's so interesting.
Same
same here!
Sane here buddy
I can see it from the FDR and I'm always curious about it. I would love it they opened it up...
wonderful article!
LOVE THE HISTORY!!
Someone should make a movie out of it or write a novel. That'd be a great topic for creative writing or fiction of any kind. Very interesting video. Thanks for uploading.
So much history. Would love to go through it all
EXCELENT !
The Last of Us.
Exactly! Haha
That's a lot of books and 1:05 I wonder what their titles were?
well said
I've read that book he mentioned, The World Without Us. If you're fascinated by places like these, it's definitely worth a read.
Thank you for posting these incredible photos and telling us this story of North Brother Island. I know this island and always wondered if it had a name and how I could get to walk through there. I even called NYC parks and they said there was no way I could get on that island. I saw a documentary on what the earth would look like if we humans were gone, Maybe it was the one you were speaking about...
susanne chakan Buill, I went out there with my friends when I lived in the so. Bronx took the ferry from Locust ave.
Me too!!!!! I always wondered the name and wanted to go on it. I was curious to explore it and wonder it's story
@@TheJodilicious6 Its not to late to go on it. I'd go soon before it gets destroyed.
@@prazofficial 👍🙌
This man is a gentlemen and a scholar. I tip my fedora to that intellectual man and I bid him well. I hope that he too, someday discovers the true beauty of what reddit bestows to mankind.
Guy Fieri Fedora feast
good job
1.5 million missing bodies dumped, could still be dumping bodies today. It's NYC's utter disgrace, they don't allow anyone to visit their loved ones buried here.
True all things must pass and fade away , I can imagine the people who lived thr at one time and how short our life truly is
We are trying to get to this island to film a documentary as well
I would like to see that. Hart Island could use some love too.
What beautiful pictures such a amazing look at the past but yet creepy
Well, since its abandoned, can i build a CABIN there?
Time to make it a quarantine facility again.
I'm surprised ***** doesn't have a "walk around" street view available of this island. It would be quite interesting.
It’s a shame that beautiful buildings like this are abandoned to rot. Remember these buildings the next time a politician comes to you wanting to raise taxes to take care of the homeless.
iNCREDIBLE
Wow! Unbelievable! So interesting what a great job
Wow unbelievable
Just out of curiosity how would attain access to this interesting place?
For all the homeless there why cant that island be restored and be made self sufficient again???
It would take way too much money... Most of the buildings are damaged beyond repair at this point
+jesseswildrides1231 Plowing them all down and using less scarce materials wouldn't be too bad financial wise. It's just the fact that too many people may be against it, due to its history.
So repair what can be repaired demolish what can be demolished... At least give the island a new chance and some homeless a place of their own
Holly Hubert I doubt they'll find much to repair. With as far as it has been deteriorating, it'll save them a lot of time just to clear it off for a new foundation and start over. Now unless they can make it spotless because who knows what kind of dangerous threats are in there, I say demolish it and start clean.
+Holly Hubert It never said it was self sufficient. I'm sure you could put up some wind generators for power, but you couldn't grow crops year round. You would have to have supply boats for food, medicine, etc., or you could just put a Wal-Mart there and let them worry about it. They would also need a ferry or sea taxi service for the occupants to get to work/go to the "main land". I'm surprised Trump hasn't snatched it up cheap.
Setting for a survival horror game?
Just minutes from the shores of New York
Help just out of arms reach...
The inhabitants left this island years ago...
But...
not all of them...
your screams fade into mesh of cars and idle chatter filling the air over the water.
Your pleas for sanctuary go unheard.
And only you can hear them breathing as they hunt you down...
You can thank Pioneers like “Dr. Winthrop N Davey” for preventing outbreaks of TB...
Why was it closed down
I'm interested in the place in NYC please let me know more details
Go to Pripyat
It be cool if they rebuilt that place
Reminds me of I Am Legend
yes
That is fabulous real estate
I would so buy this property and get those developers from dubai to rebuild it!
God forbid!
How do you decontaminate an island?
That's how it feels on Angel Island!
Why is it abandoned
What a place to build rehab and homeless place plenty of room. Alot of brick buildings can be fixed . Lawrence mass old factory vacant long time now all new inside
they shud rent it out for holloween parties
Why can't they redevelop the island!
Who did the music?
Do not be mistaken. The damage that has been done to nature is not 're-taken quickly'.
make this island into the most stunning botanic reserve!
if no one goes there it is a reserve
true
Well, it is a bird sanctuary.
If you want to see what a dystopian future looks like, just go there.
I'm just waiting for Joel and Ellie to pop out behind a tree.
I want to go an expedition here ...
I think I'll visit that place every christmas and easter to play some ouija board.
I want to go!!!
Is it the Brits bringing disease to America in that cartoon at 0:34? That looks like the Union Jack.
Does that guy's hat say Genesee Cream Ale?
That bush in the middle of the photo looks like skull 2:46
webkemr that’s scary
So true!
I wanna go
Song name?
They should film Silent Hill 3 here.
I heard that vampires reside there...
Why not turn it into somewhere for people to live and put on a small ferry service to from there to the mainland each day? Seems a waste of space when so many are homeless and so forth.
Thumbs up
Why is this island not made into a prison?
The sixth burrow?
Say hi to Garol for me
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Whats the book called? The world of Atlas? I tried looking it up but i cant seem to find it !
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
thank you
I want to go, I wonder how u get there though
Hmm I don't know, maybe by boat? Just a thought.
boat
Patrick T did you ever get to go. if not let me know I'd like to tag along.
Anthony Kago I’m gonna go this summer for sure
Swim
I feel for the FOLKS BURIED THERE AND THE DOC GRAVES AT HART ISLAND!
I HAVE BEEN SEVERAL TIMES WITH OUR SOC UNITS FROM MANHATTAN .
These photos remind me of The Walking Dead.
:58 ...WAIT IS THIS A GOLEM SPEAKING?? WHATS THE "BRANDING" ON HIS FOREHEAD??? HELL NAW
Wouldn’t mind being on that island with this corona going around
👍
I'll join you Tito and we can re-populate ;D
which is the book that names the minute 2:22?
The world without us by alan weisman
Terrible city planning.
Isnt this island haunted?
Are they talking about Welfare Island?
Why did nobody squat it regarding the real estate prices in Manhattan?
Bird sanctuary.
Brian Koerber
Since when do squatters care for sparrows?"!
Google+ is Censorship You can only get there by boat, so if you're too poor for a home, you're probably too poor for a boat.
Not to mention Rikers Island is extremely close, so the island is heavily monitored.
this place is definitely haunted
no!!
It's not
Stupid. No
haunted
put it on ebay.....
The I-10 it could be a very abandoned at a of this used to be a hospital that are many people that are symptoms or sickness that emit treat them over too good of it to stay healthy and stronger and to go get back for their feet that are of the affair better but since times are already passed already. The items they are banded today and sometimes that's some items that are up there could be like not to trespass in it right there because sometimes the item it could be carryover darkest secrets are not sharing into the light from others or anyone because sometimes that well only time will tell. That may need buildings and other things going to be like disappear forever there will be no more over to remember that a how it is became how did they started and how this being a functional data well the beginning of to be a belt finish and what faith of the future will be hoped of this abandoned I me because sometimes that is just the item but if this then that it could be transformed over to a hospital like a emergency it could be like a mini of equipment supplies patients animated people sick to come to the island and that their treat them very good then everyone is going to be fair to feel better because everyone should know that already but sometimes. Of well everything it is must be like for the green paper it is the same time that out of a green paper is not going to be like approve or something else because it's going to be like flushing in the toilet seat sorry everyone because sometimes you need to know is the truth about it because sometimes that well going to be what's happening next and time will tell
Ok but he's beautiful..
If I had the money of Bill Gates I would update that theater at least and turn it into a meeting room for tech giants or something.
10/10 would shoot The Walking Dead there.
This would be an awesome place for a zombie apocalypse scene
this is not her earth
LETMEGOLETMEGOLETMEGOLETMEGOLETMEGO
Biology always wins.
Umm your pictures aren’t accurate at all
This small island old building, it should be demolished and make a new buildings
Couldn't you go here in gta4?
No you couldn't. However, maybe you're thinking of a mod. Someone could have added it to the game.
North Brother Islsnd
Thxs for sharing, I like the shots and to stop the vid, to take a longer look at the works of men/women, who most probl. also have departed, some to everlasting life, at the break of Day.