The Haunting Abandoned Island In The Middle Of NYC

The X-Ray Room

Formerly the x-ray portion of the pavilion has now become a tile sanctuary on the first floor of the medical wing. The control room on the adjacent left side does not reveal as much damage as you would expect, but the wall has significantly taken a beating.

Once yellow tinted from the ceramic tiles overlapping one another, has revealed square lead blocks that line the now-exposed surface of the demolished walls. Again water damage is found when looking at the upper walls and ceilings toward the right of the room, although we are surprised that this room stayed in tact at all over the years.

An Abandoned Auditorium

One of the most momentous rooms left on the island, still left to its crumbling roots, is the auditorium located in the North Brother “School” that was originally the island’s Services Building. As an environment that once functioned in the benefit of the children and teachers, parcels of collapsed and destroyed furniture remain along the grounds of the room.

If these corroded walls could speak, we wonder what they would reveal about this former “services” chamber. Most likely used to collect the hundreds of sick children that inhabited the island, the institution was once vital to the system implemented on the abandoned piece of land.