Creepy Pictures from Abandoned New York Leper Colony [View all]

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094823/New-York-leper-colony-Eerie-pictures-inside-abandoned-world-lost-island.html#ixzz1l9oqUNEf

Closed since 1963, North Brother Island used to house people with infectious diseases, including leprosy.

Stairwells strewn with debris and walls crumbling slowly to dust, it is the island that New York forgot for 50 years.
Now, in a series of extraordinarily eerie pictures, the lost world of North Brother - quarantine zone, leper colony and centre for drug addicts - has been brought back to life.
It is hard to believe that these echoing corridors and abandoned halls were home to hundreds of patients - or that a criss-cross of tree-lined avenues were once roads.
But the haunting quality of these pictures makes it easy to imagine that it was a place of indescribable misery, which one inmate compared to the notorious black hole of Calcutta.





As it was: North Brother Island circa 1937




Overgrown: The front of the tuberculosis building can be glimpsed through a tangle of bushes and trees







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