Long off-limits, North Brother Island may finally open to the public

… relative isolation made it the ideal place to build hospitals Atlas Obscura recounts how the uninhabited island … purchased by the city in the late 1800s to erect Riverside Hospital a facility for New Yorkers with contagious illnesses The hospitals most notorious patient was Mary Mallon aka Typhoid …

By Alanna Schubach |November 2, 2016 - 2:59PM