Comments on: North Brother Island (Island Week 4)

By: Dru

Dru — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:20:36 +0000

I just watched a story on this on "LIfe after People" on discovery channel. They say that in just 45 years this island is reverting to it's natural habitat very quickly. It is a great example of what happens when people aren't around.

I am really curious though, as a west coast guy. Isn't land in NJ really expensive? Seems like someone would want to buy this place and turn it into a private island of fun or something..

By: dave

dave — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:16:35 +0000

the bar soaps of the day wasnt the best of products today thwy are miracles . not to mention the miracle pounder of 1917 called BLEACH. IF BLEACH was gone or its efectiveness it would not be good.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:12:19 +0000

just when i thought scooby doo didn’t have a real movie studio set. Typoid has shifted realities who knows maybe this island will be in use again…

By: PeeJay

PeeJay — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:43:06 +0000

So wat about this spooky island? Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:52:41 +0000

Typhoid Mary was isolated on the island because she refused to stop being a cook. She was actually a healthy carrier of Typhoid. Mallon was first quarantined in 1906 and then released in 1910 but she went back to her old job as cook and started infecting people again. She was sent back to the island in 1915 and died there in 1938.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:40:47 +0000

It was the scene of one of the worst shipwrecks in American history, the burning of the excursion steamer General Slocum in 1904, with over 1,000 deaths.