The crumbling rubble of an abandoned leper colony sits on North Brother Island, within which major metropolis?

Just a stone's throw from the ritzy high rises of Manhattan, this eerily desolate island sits in decay. From 1885 until 1963, it was the grim home of quarantined patients with smallpox, leprosy, tuberculosis and eventually, drug addiction—including the infamous Typhoid Mary, who spent three decades here in near total isolation. Adding to its sinister history, the island was also the site of one of the worst disasters in American History: the 1904 ship fire on the General Slocum. The fire killed 1,021 people (mostly women and children); many of the victims' bodies washed ashore on the banks of North Brother.

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