Spooky: New Photos Peer Inside an Abandoned Island Leper Colony Near NYC
- Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:37pm by
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Debris, decay, and the unmerciful growth of nature define this abandoned island for banished people. North Brother Island was once the last refuge of society’s castaways, and though it has been left to rot for 50 years, new photographs have breathed life into this eerie facility.
Photographer and historian Ian Ference received special access to the site, and his photos have appeared in The Daily Mail. What you will see below is a haunting photographic collage that reminds us all of a long-forgotten place.
A former quarantine zone, leper colony and centre for drug addicts, these spooky buildings were once home to hundreds of patients.
But the Daily Mail has highlighted its insidious reputation, stating that it was once “a place of indescribable misery, which one inmate compared to the notorious black hole of Calcutta.”
While very few New Yorkers even know about this abandoned facility, it is only 350 yards from highly populated areas of the Bronx. North Brother Island was used as a quarantine centre for the first time back in 1885.
Soon after is opening, it was home to a few lepers, but its most infamous resident was an Irish immigrant who came to be known as ‘Typhoid Mary.”
After years moving from family to family as a cook, spreading the typhoid infection wherever she went despite showing no symptoms herself, police forcibly relocated Mary to North Brother Island.
She spent years confined to wandering her wooded prison island.
North Brother Island also had a front row-seat to the 1904 fire onboard the passenger ship, General Slocum. The steam ship, which was carrying a Lutheran Church outing on Manhattan’s East River, caught fire. Of the 1342 people on board, 1,021 were killed in the disaster, and most of the dead were women and children.
Offiicially Closed in 1963, North Brother Island has become something of an urban legend to those who knows about it. Protected species of birds are its only year-round inhabitants and armed authorities patrol the waters to ensure the former quarantine zone is never violated.
Photographer Ian Ference told the Daily Mail: “This has got to be one of America’s most important places to visit,’ he said. ‘Historically it has had a notorious and sometimes sinister reputation.”
Ference added that ‘It was established as a forced quarantine camp for people suffering from infectious and often fatal diseases such as typhoid, scarlet fever, yellow fever and typhus. There were six people suffering from leprosy confined here in wooden huts.”
During this time in New York’s history, there was widespread fear that unclean immigrants from European countries like Ireland and Italy were forced to live in crowded and unsanitary conditions that allowed dangerous disease to spread like wildfire.
‘Health authorities had a mandate from the people to track down and detain those infected with certain diseases. Unless they happened to be wealthy enough to afford a private clinic, these poor souls would be sent to quarantine areas. And among the most notorious quarantines was North Broth Island.
Conditions on the island, even for the time, were considered deplorable. The mortality rate for patients there was high, and it appeared in many cases to be more of a place one was sent to rot and die than recover and re-enter society.
”Its first inhabitants were those unfortunate patients with communicable diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, scarlet fever and diphtheria, who were forcibly removed from the city’s teeming streets. Living conditions were primitive, a hotch-potch of pavilions, tents and cottages flung up around the central Riverside Hospital.”
Ference also described harsh living conditions on the island:
“When bad weather stopped ferries from running there were food shortages and in winter, frequently little heat. Incarceration on North Brother was often a death sentence. Those who did return from its shores spoke of a hellish environment like ‘the black hole of Calcutta.”
Unlike modern New York, with ubiquitous cellular phones, internet, and even live video chat, back in the heyday of North Brother, those sent to the island were completely cut off from the rest of the world. Many patients were never seen or heard from by their families ever again.
Today, only a handful of ornithologists are allowed to visit the island to document its colony of black-crowned night herons. City patrol officers keep watch on the island, though some intrepid bloggers have described their illegal trips to this abandoned place for those society had forgotten.
There are even more of these stunning, yet haunting, Ian Ference photos here, and additional historical descriptions of the island, courtesy of The Daily Mail.
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Comments (157)
MommyNeedsMoreCoffee
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:04amImma thinking North Brother Island is a perfect site to shoot a horror flick….the taxes the production company would pay NY should at least cover all those armed guards.
Report Post »GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:16amI was thinking the same thing…………………man this looks like something out of a horror movie…
Report Post »Mtroom
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:25amI thought I was going to see inside Soros’ house. ..still looking for some sign of him in these pictures.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:42amThey didn’t get a BAILE out.
Report Post »Fullmagazine
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:41amI was thinking more like a good home for the Obamas.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:07amScared? I fear no man, no weapon system, nothing, but God in Heaven. I will say this loudly and for all to see and hear, TAKE MY LIFE, for at that moment I will be free of the hell on earth, the chains of bondage from Satan himself. I laugh in the face of Satan, for he cannot touch my soul, because I believe in Jesus our Christ ALMIGHTY! I have been saved in Him, and I REPENT of ALL MY SINS for all to see, and I turn my back on my wicked past and evil ways. One day at a time I get better and better at it. I will no longer cast judgement over my fellow sinner, or call names at people. Do as you please and you will get what you wish for. I will be judged by no man, by no serpant, but ONLY by God himself. If he so chooses to throw me in the pit, so be it, but I will stand before Him.
When Jesus our Christ RETURNS with His sword of life and death, I HOPE to stand next to Him to fight the good battle over evil —– AMEN.
Report Post »Come get me communists, fascists, athiests, islamists, greedy, vile, corrupt, wicked, fornicators – I am here for the taking! I will meet you on the battlefield of life and death and those are my words of IRON. My name is Sgt. Unix Crust – come battle with me on COD MW3 and feel my sting!
thewatcher93
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:17amA lot of people are saying this looks like something out of a horror movie or that it’s spooky as the article suggests, I don‘t think it’s spooky, it is just an old building falling apart.
Report Post »JesusH.Christ
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:18pm@UNIK,
Report Post »This place is for people like you. Your mind should be quarantined.
caveman74
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:22pmI have never heard of this place before. HMM now what to do with all these occupy wall street people…
Report Post »Chapjoy53
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:59pmIt would be a perfect place for a sci-fi/horror movie!!
Report Post »little big man
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:12pmWow this looks like the perfect place to relocate the Obama family, and the entire DNC party.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:24pmRelocate Muslims in the US there…they can have their Mosque and everything.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:26pmYeah! A zombie movie!
Report Post »FreddyzDead
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:35pmThe armed guards are the Corrections Officers of NYC and they patrol the waters around Rikers Island, North Brother Island and Hart Island. They take care of Hart Island as that’s where John and Jane Does from NYC are buried by inmates from Rikers. Most of the dead from North Brother were buried there also. They cruise the East River 24/7 in fast boats as I can attest to. My friend and I were fishing between City Island and Hart Isl. when we got too close to Hart Isl. and a patrol boat was on us like they dropped from the sky. Shotguns at the ready, they told us to move NOW! Hart Isl. is a few hundred yards east of City Isl. and North Brother is northwest of Rikers even less. Go to Google Earth for an up close view of the cemetaries on Hart Island. Whole Lotta Graves!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:26pmgood one JesusH.Christ…I feel so humiliated by your one liner, may I bow to kiss your feet now? How about some perfume? You missed the point anyway, so I wont bother trying to explain it, see other posts for that.
Report Post »ThikSkin
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:22pmCheck out “Session 9” A very intelligent spooky flick right up this alley.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:18pmWho worked at a place like this? How did they protect themselves from being infected? No hazmat suits back then I’m thinking. Any of the workers still living? Has TAPS (Ghost Hunters) visited? Any photos from when this place was active?
Report Post »syddakate
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:50amDid anyone click through to Ian Ference’s site and look at the other pictures he took at North Brother Island? That model was brave to be draping herself all over the debris of quarantine buildings while nude. Who knows what a splinter or rusty shard could be holding on to?
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:33amGet a life, do you hide under the covers all day afraid of your shadow??
Report Post »SueMcGee
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:37amI’m with you, the shot of her sitting on that filthy chair skeeved me out. Brave girl!
Report Post »IslandMama
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:47amWhy do we need ARMED patrols there to stop people from visiting an uninhabited island where (presumably) diseases are dead by now? Re-read the article – ARMED patrols stopping present-day people from going there? Why?
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:21ambecause the night herons are protected….gotta save the birds
Report Post »RedheadTexan
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:22amMore likely it is to keep morons from going out there, getting drunk and falling through the floor, then suing New York for millions of dollars.
Report Post »Red Bubba
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:11amIt’s called “reporting”. The “journalist” either exaggerated based on the reasoning that cops have guns, or made it up completely. I’d be willing to bet you can go to the island and nobody would bother you.
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:41am“It is currently off-limits to the public and patrolled often due to the proximity of a nearby prison complex on Rikers Island, as well as joining the purpose of its brethren as a bird sanctuary.”
from this site: http://www.opacity.us/site100_riverside_hospital_north_brother_island.htm
So NO, you wouldn’t be able to go on a picnic there.
Report Post »JesusH.Christ
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:31pmRED BUBBA,
Report Post »It’s called “The Internet”. If you had taken the 30 seconds or so to do a little research you would have found numerous articles written about this place. And every one of those articles would have informed you of it’s “OFF LIMITS” status. This place is surrounded with razor wire fences and can only be accessed by a gate that is patrolled by armed security.
But I’ll take that bet if you want to give it a try. I‘ll bet you you don’t even make it across the east river alive. (and that’s just because of the current) Hell, I‘ll bet you don’t even make it to NYC!! (*Hint* We eat folks like you at every tailgate party before a Giants game.)
IslandMama
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:45amWhy are there armed patrols making sure no one goes there TODAY? That’s what the article is saying, right? So why on earth is that necessary? The diseases should be dead by now, I would presume. Why would we need ARMED patrols preventing people from visiting an uninhabited island today?
Report Post »1956
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:27amHow about liability issues… looks like part of the building is falling down. All they’d need is for some teenagers to get crushed under falling bricks…
Not to mention – I’m not a scientist, mind you, but some bacteria and viruses can live for a very, very long time. Could some of them still be lurking on the island with the wildlife there? I dunno – but maybe that is a possibility.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:44amIf we follow Problemsolver’s posts on our 1913 and 1933 bankruptcies, and the UN/IMF/Fed owns all of us and our land – NONE of US has ANY rights. Even if this beautiful country is not ‘technically ours’ what gives the Tea Party, OWS or us, ANY rights whatsoever? So we all lose every argument right off the bat.
Report Post »It will be just a matter of time before TRUE RED BLOODED AMERICANS decide to stand up to what has been perpetrated upon us, without our knowledge. It will be carnage times ten, so all of this infighting won’t make much difference will it, when America is totally destroyed.
It makes me sick to my stomach to see us all fight here on the Blaze, or anywhere, don’t ya’ll get it yet, the elite want us to eat each other, then they have total control…this is amazing to watch.
From other posts, I think the idea of educating America would be the best thing that could happen. How do we do it? We do it with love, understanding, intelligence, and strength in numbers.
WE THE PEOPLE can turn this ship around, and we don‘t need this so called ’father figure’ in the WH to do it. Let’s come up with a plan to re-educate these lost souls out there, to re-educate ourselves to what our forefathers paid so dearly to give us.
“If a man stands for nothing, then he will fall for anything”
“Tell the truth, even if it means your DEATH”
TBC…
Unix
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:51amGod, I do love this country, and I don’t want to see it destroyed by Satan. I want to thank each and every one of you for being you, whether you are left, center or right, for you see we are ALL AMERICANS in the end. I just wish everyone could embrace the freedoms and rights we have, or ‘technically don’t have’, and come together to FIX the free market system, to obliterate the Oligarchy, and restore true Capitalism and the entrepreneurial spirit that once thrived here, we’d ALL be BETTER OFF, and we would have JOBS! Is that not the source of our worries – JOBS! If there were jobs out there, and people still were freeloading, then they would be banished to an island in the Pacific for all I care. This collectivism is KILLING AMERICA…WE must STOP it now!
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:29am@UNIX, you are on the right track.
It is not about D or R or TEA or ows.
LOVE IS THE ANSWER.
Charity is the Pure Love of Jesus Christ.
1 Cor. 13:13
Check into: http://www.MercuryOne.org
Spreading Love is the answer.
RESTORING LOVE is the key.
Teaching others to love, by example. (education)
TRUTH will set us free!
Hope to see you in Dallas!
Report Post »JesusH.Christ
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:43pm@UNIK,
Report Post »You crack me up! You should get your own televangelist show and convince a few of your followers to write checks and send them in to FUND THE WAR AGAINST SATAN!
Tell ya what,… you post an address and I’ll cut you check faster than you can say, HALLELUJAH!
DD313
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:39amThere were much larger hospital facilities on Roosevelt Island in the East River. The one at the north end was razed for a housing development with only the shell of the octagonal administration building being preserved and integrated into the complex. At the southern tip of the island, nearly opposite the UN building, are the remains of a large, stone victorian gothic hospital building which may in the process of preservation. At least the brush has been cleared away from it. I haven’t been there, Wikipedia and Google Earth are all you need.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:15amMake Obama live there when they finally impeach his sad ass for what he has done to America and the American people.
Report Post »nuttyvet
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:32amnever fails… could be a story about a fire fighter saving a box of kittens and the first quotes are always Obama this and that. Enjoy a story for once!!!
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:40amMine was not the first post (read down). And this is pretty much a political web site. If you don‘t want to hear politics then don’t come to this site.
And the firefighter saving the kittens: the firefighter works for the union and the kittens are Obama campaign donors. See, anything can be turned into politics here.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:48amThe smelly ows kids want a headquarters and tried to take over a city hall building in Oakland.
Why don’t they try to overtake this ?
I’d look the other way, personally, if they did.
Guards protect this island?
Report Post »Is it still quarantined?
Or, are we paying guards to protect some birds that could still nest there, nest elsewhere, or fall victim to “darwinian evolution”??
Stevsea
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:50am@NUTTYVET….My thoughts exactly. I never heard of this place and found the story to be informative and amazing to say the least. Keep ‘em coming The Blaze. I love this stuff.
Report Post »JesusH.Christ
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:57pm@NUTTYVET,
Report Post »You have to understand something about these people. First of all, they aren’t people, they’re ROBOTS. Secondly, they know nothing about politics, they know EVERYTHING about complaining though. And third, to expect them NOT to spin “any” story in the direction of their misguided thoughts and values is a mistake. It’s their nature.
If you want a good story, check out “The Scorpion and The Frog”. It will explain a lot about these yahoos.
Enjoy. :-)
grannyrecipe
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:17amThis looks like one of selfdefiants room-escape games on melting-mindz.com. I’m not advertising, I’m just a huge fan of his games!
sd in M !!!
Report Post »4 digit box in Q
clue on window in B
smithclar3nc3
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:50amLooks like it would make a great resort,or prison….But is a waste of tax dollars as it stands todays.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:34amThis comes as a 4th generation Italian/German who‘s paternal grandfather was a WWII vet in between being among the first structural ironworkers in the boom times of NYC starting in the 1920’s, as the only people they could get to build the steel tower frames were Italians and Indians who they thought were 3/4′s nuts, and the very last project he worked on before starting a business of his own was slinging iron on the Empire State until it‘s completion in ’31.
His work and the others who raised those towers across NYC were descendents from the very immigrants that were housed on these ‘misfit -leper colonies and islands’, even inner city ghetto‘s like Hell’s Kitchen still today, and that’s why the new immigrant whining of mostly illegal immigrants today sickens me, and I’ll fight until I DIE or until they stop stealing our nation from under our feet with PC and BS. http://bit.ly/wVDRiL
STFU, work hard and ‘earn your way into the fold’…..you‘re just not ’welcomed with open arms and our wallets and established communities now just for the sake of being here, luckily enough for whomever and however they arrived here legal or not.
Being an American is a PRIVILEGE and a full time job, as OUR ancestors embraced it and lived it, just as we do in their memories and names…meanwhile most of these people of recent times shiiiit on IT, us, their legacies, and our rule of law worse of all and our own under our employ government won’t even watch our backs and ha
Report Post »Angel98315
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:51amEveryone can be legal.
Make all the government benevolence programs unconstitutional and shut them down. Pass the Fair Tax Act H.R. 25 {or S13}. This way all residents are paying their taxes and without taxing ‘income’ or ‘property’. Additionally anyone who arrived here “illegally” are still paying their taxes by default, and are free to get help from where ever.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:15amLoved your post. The immigrants today want to take what America has to offer and give nothing in return except for us to adopt their ways of life…yeah, Muslims, I’m talking to you.
Report Post »uslatino
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:32amThe passion to be an AMERICAN!!!! no longer exist.
Report Post »Persimmon Knob
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:00pmMy grandad come from Czechoslovakia about the turn of the century. He was a stone mason who help construct several pretty nice church’s in the Chicago area.
Report Post »After he settled in the Lyons Illinois community he found that the job he had been accepted for had been taken that very same day. Figuring he had to feed the family and without the slightest thought of applying for the welfare of the time he started his own company. HE was the company and he contracted his labor at first before he had saved enough to purchase a little of his own equipment and hire help. Long story short Barry Odumbo would hate the guy. He retired a millionaire after WWII (where he lost a son in Europe) and lived a long life in Illinois and later California.
His wife, my granma, was something like 4 foot 9 and one day grandad came home highly steamed about something having to do with the business. When grandad was angry it was best to get out of his way. He was 6 foot 7 and his vocabulary sometimes reverted back to his european roots when he roared his displeasure. He began to shout and granma, bless her heart stood in front of the man and shouted right back, “Frank, you are in America now. We are Americans. We speak English in this house”. Grandad wilted with his only comment being “Yes Anna”.. Great memories of the time America was great. (pre-Obama).
Slowman101
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:54amThis place should be turned into a re-education camp for Democrats and Liberals.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:09amSHHHHHHHHHHHH…If you haven’t been following politics, they are in control, not us. Dont give them any ideas…
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:59amFascist… No side should have that power…
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:32amThat’s odd. Why protect this place with armed guards?
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:54amOh, OK. The US Coastguard patrols the waters around the island and they are, of course, armed.
To protect some birds.
Report Post »Katydidnt
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:46amNZKIWI, it is to make sure the communicable diseases that might still lurk there don’t re-enter society.
Report Post »JesusH.Christ
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:10pmYou mean like Fear and Ignorance? Too late. Check out ONEMANPROGRESSIVEWRECKINGCREW.
Report Post »He’s got it BAD!
AMERICA4EVER
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:11amMake ti the new Gitmo.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:56amOf course quarantine houses existed….
How else does one prevent the spread of highly infectious diseases
for which no treatment – pharmaceutical, surgical, etc. may have existed.
Today, we do the same thing….only its costs a gillion dollars more.
We quarantine one patient in an incredibly expensive hospital room,
with limited access and special nurses, attire, food, and garbage collection.
So tell me, if someone releases a smallpox vial,
Report Post »of which some have gone “missing,”
what will happen to the population, especially in cities, and what should one do?
?quarantine….or worry about civil liberties?
Angel98315
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:41amThose who sacrifice liberty for temporary security deserve and receive neither.
Report Post »dirtydog1776
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:21amLooks like public housing in most black run, America cities. Two years after the tenants move in.
Report Post »meeester
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:02amShhh!
Report Post »You want to let the word our about this place? They’ll move in and ruin it.
olddog
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:10amYou old dirtydog you..
Report Post »Kisses6350
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:32amWow! Why does almost every story on here have to turn racial? Note: There are many families of all diffrent ethinticities that are currently living in and ruining Public housing!
Report Post »Kisses6350
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:44amWow! Make it about race!!!! There are so many cities that this area remembles! And not all “black” cities!
Report Post »RagingJudge
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:37pmPretty much all cities are “Black cities”, because they are enslaved in a culture of welfare and entitlement, and cities are the only place people like that can survive. It’s not being black that does this to them, it‘s because they’re being TOLD that being black does this to them. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:09amThis is what all of America will look like if Obama gets re-elected.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:28amMost of Detroit already looks like this …
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:46pmFerence‘s photo’s are great! Still,its a place where we hid the sick and weak..Many across the USA still exist.I hope he takes pictures of all of them.It would be a long,sad undertaking,but that’s the way it was.
Report Post »No reason to deny the past.
MrMagoo
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:02amThey don’t exist NOW,just old spooky reminders.
Al Quieda and Hamas best look real hard at their futures when messing with the USA.We can do it again.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:19pm.
Report Post »Thats where they need to put the OWSer’s and forget…….
valarie
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:26pmLOL! Would that we could. Just supply them with plenty of dope and…well…they‘ve proved they don’t need sanitary conditions so, problem solved!
Report Post »meeester
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:05amshh don’t tell them. (i planted some weed over there) . . .and no one cares if you take a bath.
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:09pmVery sad to read and see how we once treated the sick in our country….. many around the world are still treated this way, or worse. Obama care will not help our current system prevent many bad systems from returning.
Report Post »rowanrobert
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:07pmThis is very interesting. I had no idea. Way to go Blaze!
Report Post »valarie
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:07pmWhen it comes to deadly diseases, without any hope for a cure and if the diseased would not cease to spread the disease via their *cough* behavior, I could see a place like this being useful.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:50amIt would be better to just put them out of their misery, than to just let them rot. Makes you wonder what they are hiding, protecting this place with armed guards, even though no more patients are there….Maybe there are secrets or maybe they do testing on people there.
Report Post »valarie
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:50pmHow do we know that this old place was NOT a decent and humane place to house diseased people? I think this is a mistake on the part of the blaze. Confining diseased humans is not bad…it’s common sense and I wish we had more of that now…as long as it is humane and decent to the afflicted.
That said, I truly believe in quarantining anyone that will not stop behaving in a manner that spreads disease. Again, as long as the quarantine is humane.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:04pmI sailed right past this Island which is just SW of Hells Gate. The East River does a sharp right tun then a quick left turn and when the tide is at full force 5-6 Knots, a whirlpool forms . It is really something to see. My sailboat did 12 knots going with the tide. This island is worth millions.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:06amMillions to who.. I think this is one of the sins of America!
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:03pmWow.Terrific pictures.I have only 1 question.Its 2012.A sight of horror.Why keep it?Liberals need reminders of their atrocities?
Gettysburg,Virginia was just as horrific.With many more casualties and with honor.Saving the USA.Every inch of this sacred ground needs to be preserved.
http://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:15pmPennsylvania.Lest we forget.
Report Post »freightliner1160
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:57pmGood story.
Report Post »FaithfulFriend
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:48pmCall in the Ghost Hunters, or better yet hand it over to the occupliers and save them the 20 years they’d need otherwise to destroy a village.
Report Post »Common.Cents
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:44pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTFbbthrQYw
This made me think of this video. It is quite the pun. I wonder if they had parties over there?
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:43pmThis place would make an excellent re-education camp location…..why hasn’t someone informed DHS about this golden opportunity?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:53pmWe could fill it with occutards and obamazombies,oh wait they’re one in the same.
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