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.

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 ...

North Brother Island Like Poveglia Island, North Brother Island started as a quarantine hospital. The United States ...

Less than a mile from Manhattan - one of the priciest and most densely populated places in the world - sits a mysterious island that people abandoned more than half a century ago. "North Brother ...