Inside NYC's Spooky, Abandoned North Brother Island
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Tuberculosis Pavilion Lobby, North Brother Island, New York. Photographer Christopher Payne specializes in the documentation of America’s vanishing architecture and industrial landscape. His new book, North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City, explores an uninhabited island of ruins in the East River of New York City.