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	National Lighthouse Museum - North Brother Island Lighthouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		North Brother was witness to the greatest maritime disaster in New York City history.
		People on the island assisted in the rescue of hundreds of passengers, but panic set among those on board and over 1000 lives were lost.
		The lighthouse is visible from the northeast shore of Randalls Island or approached by small boat.
	www.lighthousemuseum.org /nylights/nbrother.htm (246 words)

	North Brother Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Brother Island is an island in the East River situated between the Bronx and Riker's Island.
		The island was uninhabited until 1885, when Riverside Hospital moved there from the island now known as Roosevelt Island.
		The infamous Typhoid Mary was confined to the island for over two decades until she died there in 1938.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Brother_Island (355 words)

	South Brother Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Brother Island is one of a pair of small islands in the East River situated between the Bronx and Riker's Island.
		Jacob Ruppert, a brewery magnate and early owner of the New York Yankees, had a summer house on the island early in the twentieth century, but no one has lived on the island since then and there are no structures there today.
		Brothers: NYC's worst maritime tragedy Photos of the islands in 2004, and images of the General Slocum from Forgotten New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Brother_Island (274 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		North Brother Island, a 13 acre piece of history laying just southwest of Hunts Point in the East River, is a remnant of a long-forgotten era in New York.
		The clocks on North Brother stopped around 1954 when the city pulled the plug on Riverside Hospital, the main attraction on the island and a storied institution that opened in 1886 to treat and isolate victims and carriers of contagious illnesses.
		The island gained notoriety in the early 1900's as the involuntary home of "Typhoid" Mary Mallon, a carrier of typhus who was allegedly responsible for 3 deaths and 47 illnesses from 1907-1915.
	www.thepoint.org /reenvisioning/NorthBrotherIsland.html (632 words)

	Island Retreats for Wading Birds - Wired New York Forum
		Others say wading birds have forsaken those islands because owls, hawks and raccoons who once fed on garbage in the Fresh Kills landfill have ventured farther afield as the landfill gradually closed and are preying on heron eggs and young on the island.
		North Brother's vegetation — a jungle of thick brush, low trees and tangled bittersweet vines set among the ruins of a dozen quarantine and hospital buildings — has produced a secure haven for the fl-crowned night heron, the city's most populous heron species.
		U Thant Island, across from the United Nations and named for the onetime secretary general, has a dozen nests of double-crested cormorants, one of which is plainly visible to passing boats.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4308 (1358 words)

	Taphophilia (dot) Com - 100 Years Ago Today: General Slocum Centennial
		By this time the boat was opposite North Brother Island and was evidently still under control, for it rounded the point where the dock is located and ran ashore in a little cove, where the jagged rocks jut out into the water.
		For hours after the disaster the waters around North Brother Island were thick with dead bodies, and these were pulled aboard all kind of craft as quickly as they could be and laid out in the awful rows on the pier.
		The Slocum did not remain at North Brother Island more than ten minutes from the time she struck, but there did not seem to be a living person aboard of her when she drifted off down stream, and finally landed more than a mile away on the beach at Hunt's Point.
	www.taphophilia.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1078 (5341 words)

	urban exploration : urbanlens : north brother island
		These are the remains of a complex of buildings that once housed unfortunate victims of the most hideous contagious diseases of the 19th and 20th centuries, including tuberculosis, typhoid fever and smallpox.
		When these diseases were tamed, the island found a new use as a home for troubled and drug-addicted youth, but the program proved unsuccessful and funding for it vanished.
		An island once home to the infamous Typhoid Mary, an island that bore witness to a horrifying nautical disaster - the wreck of the General Slocum, and an island that occasionally has harbored escaped convicts from nearby Riker's Island.
	www.urbanlens.com /files/nbro/north_brother_island.html (210 words)

	SCB 2000 Abstract Lookup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		North Brother Island is a 4 hectare pyramid of rock rising to an elevation of 80m in Cook Strait, New Zealand.
		Approximately half the island is bare cliff, and the remainder is covered by a patchwork of ice plant, tussock grasses, and shrubby vegetation.
		The conservation values of North Brother Island include (1) serving as a refuge for rare species; (2) providing source populations for translocations to establish new populations; and (3) providing a site for scientific research of biotas unaffected by mammalian pests.
	www.umt.edu /scb2000/abstracts/abstract_info.asp?id=286 (232 words)

	Lighthouses@Lighthouse Digest ... Memories of North Brother Island
		North Brother’s lighthouse was established in 1869 to aid navigation through Hell’s Gate, the narrow and treacherous strait between Astoria and Ward’s Island.
		Probably North Brother’s best-known resident was Mary Mallon, better known as “Typhoid Mary.” In 1906, Mallon was employed as a cook by wealthy New York banker Charles Henry Warren.
		A Coast Guard crew ran the North Brother Island Light Station for a few years after the Murrays left, then in 1953, the lighthouse was decommissioned and an automatic light was installed on the nearby fog bell tower.
	www.lhdigest.com /Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=1941 (1497 words)

	1904 General Slocum Disaster Brooklyn Eagle
		As the Slocum proceeded, a blazing mass, I lost sight of her around the bend, at the head of North Brother Island, but I am sure that scores of people were drowned between One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street and the point at which she was beached.
		She was pulled out of the water by William MAJOR of the Theo, and was taken directly to the hospital at North Brother Island, suffering from immersion, and half crazy over the loss of her mother, Lucy, and her brother Charles, both of whom also lived in the Eastern District.
		The boat was steered to North Brother Island for the purpose of beaching her side on, and in such water as would permit the rescue of passengers.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Newspaper/Slocum/Slocum.html (16579 words)

	Beyond Manhattan \| Rikers Island \| History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		n island in the eastern arm of the East River, at the entrance to Long Island Sound, North Brother Island has an area of 20.5 acres and is part of the Bronx.
		North Brother Island was in private hands until it was purchased in 1871 by the Town of Morrisania.
		The island got its lighthouse legend at the beginning of the last century from a tragedy.
	nyc24.jrn.columbia.edu /2003/islands/zone2/rikershistory.html (1127 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Brothers Island tuatara (Sphenodon guntheri) is one of the rarest reptiles in the world.
		The New Zealand Department of Conservation proposes to establish a third wild population of Brothers Island tuatara on Matiu/Somes Island.
		In summary, the conservation status of Brothers Island tuatara is improving and programmes appear to be progressing successfully.
	www.massey.ac.nz /~darmstro/abstract_Nelson.htm (331 words)

	Matiu/Somes Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Eight kilometres from the city centre Matiu/Somes Island is one of the most accessible of New Zealand's predator-free islands.
		Populations of tuatara from North Brother Island and the Cook Strait giant weta are being re-established on Matiu/Somes Island.
		In 1997 Somes Island was renamed Matiu/Somes Island in recognition of the strong associations of both Maori and Europeans with the island.
	www.angelfire.com /ak/Paul56/soams.html (243 words)

	Four Brothers Islands IBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		However, North Brother has a history of municipal development and several abandoned buildings are present, whereas South Brother has none.
		The islands are a mix of deciduous forest, scrub, and grassy patches.
		Surveys in 1995 showed that the islands supported 36% of the state's breeding Cattle Egrets (15 pr.), 6% of its breeding Great Egrets (31 pr.), 17% of its breeding Snowy Egrets (118 pr.), 29% of its breeding Black-crowned Night Herons (524 pr.) and 24% of its coastal breeding Double-crested Cormorants (855 pr.).
	www.audubon.org /chapter/ny/ny/iba/brothers.html (202 words)

	New York City Ferry Terminals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The North Brother Island Ferry, which formly operated between the Bronx and the little East River, served as the sole means to get quarantined patients and staff to the hospital located on the island for many decades prior to the hospital`s closure.
		Notably it was on this island that New York City saw one of its greatest maritime tragedies.
		The vessel never made it, but the vessel had made it close enough so that the hospital may serve as a means of treating survivors, whom were pulled off by other ships or had swam through the rough currents.
	www.geocities.com /northfield1901/terminal.html (374 words)

	Brother Island: New York History
		The building of the prison-city on Rikers Island in the early thirties, during the depths of the Depression, was made even gloomier by a lesser-known marine disaster: the explosion and sinking of the steamship Observation.
		Then I thought about these old typhoid grounds becoming a bird sanctuary, and the likelihood that the city's birders would be successful in their efforts to protect the uninhabited Brother islands, North and South, as part of a chain of bird-nesting islands in the city's river system.
		Later I dreamed that I was on the darkened shore of North Brother Island.
	www.newyorkhistory.info /Hell-Gate/Brother-Island.html (1472 words)

	The East River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North Brother Island was home to hospitals which housed patients with the worst contagious diseases, most notably tuberculosis, typhoid fever and smallpox.
		The boat was grounded near North Brother Island.
		The island was used to collect bodies for transport to the morgue.
	www.eastrivernyc.org /enatural/brother.shtm (127 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Status for Brother's Island Tuatara
		The population of tautara on North Brother Island was known at the time that S. punctatus was listed as endangered pursuant to the Act and was considered to be a population of S.
		The island has an area of only about 10 acres (4 hectares), and the tuatara population is restricted to only about 4.2 acres (1.7 hectares) of scrub habitat on top of the island.
		The decision to determine endangered status for the Brother's Island tuatara was based on an assessment of the best available scientific information, and of past, present, and probable future threats to this species.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/1998/January/Day-07/e246.htm (1858 words)

	Welcome to The New-York Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Captain steered the burning boat to the rocky shore of North Brother Island across from East 148th Street in the Bronx, but already the blazing decks had collapsed on hundreds of screaming passengers.
		Unfortunately, with the stern stuck over deep waters and the bow in flames, passengers were forced to jump in over their heads.
		Patients and staff of the contagious disease hospital on North Brother Island ran to help, extending ladders from shallow water and forming human chains to pass those bodies still breathing to safety.
	www.nyhistory.org /slocum (1539 words)

	(GCEED) Spooky island cache by tgamble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One of the other nearby islands used to contain a hospital, and it is where TB Marry was put in quarantine, it is also near the site of one the worst maritime disasters in US History.
		An important event that occurred on North Brother Island is the beaching of the General Slocum.
		This is Gerald on South Brother Island, with the Riker Island NYC jail complex in the background.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=3821 (1537 words)

	General Slocum Disaster: New York History
		North Brother Island became a scene of courage and panic.
		A measles patient from the island hospital ran into the water despite her fever and saved a few children.
		A nurse who always wished she could swim ran into the river to grab some children, which she did again and again until she was swept into deeper water, where she discovered that she could swim and continued saving lives.
	www.newyorkhistory.info /Hell-Gate/General-Slocum.html (1104 words)

	Irish American Post
		Mallon was allowed to live in a cottage on the island, but was not permitted to leave.
		She was an apparently healthy person who was being confined on an island populated by people ill with serious, contagious diseases.
		That is why, she said, she returned to cooking after she had been released from North Brother Island in 1910.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2005/03march/featured/featured16.html (1283 words)

	Michael McIntosh, Rutgers College Class of 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His name was James, he's now deceased, and myself, and twin brother, Frank, were born several years later, in 1922, and we've survived to this day, through World War II and among other things.
		North Brother Island was developed by the Coast Guard during World War I. They had built a hospital there.
		Yeah, I moved from North Brother Island, as most of the people were doing, as they graduated from school.
	fas-history.rutgers.edu /oralhistory/Interviews/mcintosh_michael.html (11919 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Medical (Typhoid Mary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She was exiled to the Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island in 1907 for an indefinite period of time and finally released in 1910.
		She was sent back to North Brother Island, and there she lived out the final twenty-three years of her life.
		Mary was not the most likeable of people, and her anger at those who tried to explain the disease to her and at those who exiled her to North Brother Island erected a barrier few people wanted to breach, let alone could.
	www.snopes.com /medical/disease/typhoid.htm (1421 words)

	Newsletter
		Added to the early 20th century worries of the wading bird, North and South Brother Islands used to be dumps—literally.
		South Brother Island is believed to be the city’s first municipal dumpsite, filled primarily with household waste from the turn of the 20th century.
		North Brother Island, which is city-owned and has recently come under Parks’ jurisdiction, was the one-time home of Victorian-era quarantine facilities and was believed to house “Typhoid Mary” during her final living days.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_newsroom/daily_plants/daily_plant_main.php?id=14943 (793 words)

	NYCHS presents Neil Tandon and Roosevelt Island Historical Society's Historical Walk -- Smallpox Hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Before this hospital, the island treated smallpox patients in wooden shacks along the river.
		Due to the island's both natural and human resources, the hospital's construction costs amounted to a mere $38,000.
		In 1886 patients were transferred to a new Riverside Hospital opened on North Brother Island.
	www.correctionhistory.org /rooseveltisland/html/rooseveltislandtour_smallpox.html (447 words)

	Leaning Towards the Dark Side: North Brother Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The lifeboats were wired to the deck and could not be freed, and the life preservers were 13 years old and entirely useless.
		The captain beached the Slocum on North Brother Island, then home to a hospital for those with contagious diseases.
		North Brother Island is abandoned today, but thanks to some intrepid explorers, there is a photo gallery of what the island looks like today.
	www.taintedbill.com /archives/002634.html (422 words)

	The Morning News - Hart Island, by Clay Risen
		A majority of the city’s islands, however, are inaccessible to the public – which is unfortunate, because in many cases they are also the most interesting.
		There’s North Brother Island, which sits between the Bronx and Riker’s Island and for 26 years was the home of ‘Typhoid Mary’ Mallon.
		While the island is uninhabited today, for most of its history it was home to a variety of penal facilities.
	www.themorningnews.org /archives/new_york_new_york/hart_island.php (1148 words)

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