#366 North Brother Island: New York's Forbidden Place
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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The Isolation of North Brother Island
The culture of north brother island was dictated by women. Those with singular afflictions, ranging from measles to leprosy, were isolated in small tents or huts away from even the regular hospital population. While doctors, all men, were allowed to leave the island, the nurses, all women, lived here year round. In 18 98, with the consolidation of new york, the mainland on either side of North Brother Island became burrows of queens and the bronk. And then came the events of june fifteenth, 19 o four. They first would have seen the smoke, the awful black smoke belching into the sky about two miles south from north brother island,. The
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