Eerie pictures of an abandoned leper colony

[Police Moderator]

Inside the lost island of New York: Eerie pictures of the abandoned leper colony just 350 yards from the Bronx
By Liz Hazelton
February 2012

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.

But the haunting quality of these pictures makes it easy to imagine that it was a place of indescribable misery, which one inmate compared to the notorious black hole of Calcutta.

See, and read, more: daily mail

[staffsgtsbunny]

CREEEEEPY! I love it!

[JC]

There was a great PBS show about this place sometime back. Complete with interviews and first and second hand reports of it's history of forced "admittance" into the asylum.

A real sad part of American "history" (-these forced asylums weren't shut down until the 60s and 70s so still pretty recent)

[LimitedRecourse]

This will probably be re-developed as green space, picnic area and children's playground.

[captaineric]

Extremely cool. Definitely worth checking out the expanded article and pictures.

[staffsgtsbunny]

I remember seeing a documentary on the amusement park that never opened in Chernobyl....kinda creepy as well. I love things like that.

[pictureman]

"This will probably be re-developed as green space, picnic area and children's playground."

With a jogging trail and some "water features".