New York City owns a creepy island that almost no one is allowed to visit - here’s what it’s like | The Independent
▻http://uk.businessinsider.com/north-brother-island-photo-tour-2017-9
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/10/09/13/north-border-island-04.jpg 
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0ymk9uakdvseiry/Capture%20d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran%202017-10-11%20%C3%A0%2010.08.53.png?dl=0 Less than one mile from Manhattan — one of the priciest and most densely populated places in the world — exists a little-known island that people abandoned nearly 55 years ago.
“North Brother Island is among #New_York City’s most extraordinary and least known heritage and natural places,” wrote the authors of a recent University of Pennsylvania study about the location
The city owns the 22-acre plot of land in the East River, which sits between the South Bronx’s industrial coast and Riker’s Island Correctional Centre — New York City’s most infamous prison.