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Post by Police Moderator on Feb 2, 2012 15:41:42 GMT -5
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
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Post by staffsgtsbunny on Feb 2, 2012 22:32:07 GMT -5
CREEEEEPY! I love it!
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Post by JC on Feb 3, 2012 8:19:32 GMT -5
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)
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Feb 3, 2012 9:57:47 GMT -5
This will probably be re-developed as green space, picnic area and children's playground.
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Post by captaineric on Feb 3, 2012 14:19:18 GMT -5
Extremely cool. Definitely worth checking out the expanded article and pictures.
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Post by staffsgtsbunny on Feb 3, 2012 16:57:40 GMT -5
I remember seeing a documentary on the amusement park that never opened in Chernobyl....kinda creepy as well. I love things like that.
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Post by pictureman on Feb 4, 2012 18:02:21 GMT -5
"This will probably be re-developed as green space, picnic area and children's playground."
With a jogging trail and some "water features".
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