Owners of the island tried to reinvent it as a rehabilitation camp for troubled teens, from 1952 through 1963. But patients didn't get the help they needed when returning home after three- to five ...

This is exactly what happened when photographer Christopher Payne visited North Brother Island, a 13-acre island between the Bronx and Riker’s Island that's been abandoned since 1963.

City officials are prepping an old South Bronx storage facility for up to 2,200 migrant men from the troubled Randall’s Island tent city — all while crowing that the asylum-seeker crisis is ...

which sits between the South Bronx's industrial coast and Riker's Island Correctional Center - New York City's most infamous prison. Almost no one is permitted on North Brother Island and its ...