| Inside the lost island of New York: Eerie pictures of the abandoned leper colony just 350 yards from the Bronx |
| Published: February 02, 2012 | News Blog | 69 clicks |
Stairwells strewn with debris and walls crumbling slowly to dust, it is the island that New York forgot for 50 years.
Now, in a series of extraordinarily eerie pictures, the lost world of North Brother - quarantine zone, leper colony and centre for drug addicts - has been brought back to life. It is hard to believe that these echoing corridors and abandoned halls were home to hundreds of patients - or that a criss-cross of tree-lined avenues were once roads.
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