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| The island today. |
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| Back in the day when the island housed the sick. |
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Place of the week #9
Between the Bronx and Rivers Island in New York lies a small island that was once taken over by humans but is now retired to nature. The "North Brother Island' was once a quarantine spot for people with small pox, the flu, or even AIDS. Later it was used as a facility to house teenagers who were in need of drug rehabilitation. Today the forgotten island is used as a bird sanctuary.
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