North Brother Island
NYC’s Urban Park Rangers Canoe Trip With Surprise Stop at North Brother Island
This past Saturday, Urban Park Rangers from the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation led a group of New Yorkers
The General Slocum Shipwreck off North Brother Island
Until the events of September 11th, the sinking of the General Slocum disaster was responsible for the largest loss of
10 of NYC’s Abandoned Hospitals and Asylums
We’re doing a bunch of fun events with Will Ellis, the author of Abandoned NYC and Untapped Cities columnist,
The 10 Creepiest Places in NYC
From mass burial grounds to abandoned psychiatric hospitals to haunted townhouses, this is an “architectural” version of a most haunted
North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in NYC, by Photographer Christopher Payne
Unlike other photographers of the abandoned, the work of Christopher Payne has always been about the delicate balance between human
The Abandoned Gantries of NYC: Port Morris, North Brother Island, Long Island City
Gantry cranes, utilized as slips for ships carrying both goods and people, were used throughout the 20th century. However, due
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Abandoned NYC: Getting Lost on North Brother Island [Photos]
Most New Yorkers have never heard of North Brother Island, but they should take comfort in the fact that new
Untapped Mailbag: Are Millions in Gold from the HMS Hussar Shipwreck Still in the East River?
An Untapped Cities reader, Alex Quintana, tweeted us about the shipwreck of the HMS Hussar last week, after reading our
Inside New York’s Abandoned Neighbor, North Brother Island
Just 350 yards east of the Bronx, an uninhabited island known as North Brother Island lies in the East River,
