Ghost Island in New York
Ghost Island in New York, to which no object is allowed to enter, what is it, what happened to it, and why is it not allowed to enter it?
Less than two kilometers from Manhattan Island, one of the most densely populated and expensive areas in the world, lies a mysterious island abandoned by people more than half a century ago known as North Brother Island.
The University of (Pennsylvania) recently conducted a study in which it dealt with this island and wrote about it. The island is classified among the picturesque areas and the beautiful natural heritage that only a few people in New York City know about.
The island, which covers an area of 90,000 square meters, is owned by New York City.
It is located within walking distance of the East River, between the industrial coast of the South Bronx and the notorious prison known as Rikers Prison.
People are forbidden to enter North Brother Island, but even sparrows seem to avoid flying over this eerie island and its abandoned buildings.
In the year 2017, the producers of the Science Channel obtained a permit from the New York City authorities to visit the island, and the content of this documentary was broadcast on the What On Earth TV program in its fourth season.
You can only access the island by boat. No one is allowed to visit the island without a permit from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
The United States claimed the island for the first time in 1614, and it was rebuilt in 1885. Since then, its history has been linked to disease and ruin.
For example, in June 1904, a huge fire broke out on a steamship called (General Slocum) and sank it in the East River. Although 321 people survived this incident, the bodies of approximately 1021 other passengers who perished continued to be picked up by the waves. beach for days.
History of the island The beginning of the island
It was purchased to house the Riverside Hospital where patients with contagious diseases were to be treated. Among the many people who arrived in Riverside, the most famous was Mary Mallon. She was famous in history as "Typhoid Mary" and, according to Atlas Obsora, bore the unfortunate distinction For being the United States' first documented asymptomatic carrier of the bacterium that causes typhoid fever.
Typhoid Mary, who worked as a cook in New York before her quarantine on North Brother Island, was in perfect health. Subsequent testing established that Mallon carried typhoid bacteria, which infected seven of the eight families she worked for. Malone refused to believe that she was in fact ill, and left Rayvon Hospital and continued to cook food, which led to the spread of the disease, in 1915, Typhoid Mary was forcibly isolated again, where she lived her days on the island of Brother North until her death in 1938.
This building was initially designed to house tuberculosis patients, but before it opened, World War II broke out. The building was finished in 1943 and did not house a single tuberculosis patient, but was used to house soldiers returning from World War II.
After Mallon's death, Riverside Hospital closed its doors until World War II when the hospital was revived to house veterans.
In the 1950s, the owners of the island tried to convert it into a rehabilitation center for the mentally ill and drug addicts from 1952 to 1963.
The hospital was unsuccessful and the program was declared a failure and closed. By the 1960s, the Riverside Hospital had run its course, becoming disreputable, and was eventually forced to close. Most of the furniture and equipment were abandoned when the residents left the island in 1963.
Everyone left the island in 1963, then New York City took over, and to this day the city has not yet decided whether to allow people to enter it again or not.