THE HAUNTED ISLAND

Once home of numerous quarantine hospitals—Typhoid Mary was its most famous patient—North Brother Island is now full of decaying buildingand migrating birds. But has the day come to finally give the public access to the 20-acre isle just off the Bronx? That's what City Council Member Mark Lwants to do. "We need to find a way to get people onto the island in a safe manner," Levine tells us.

North Brother Island has attracted urban explorers for years (translation: it's illegal to visit there), and have reveled in the contrast between lush greenery and decaying, man-made structures. "To visit there was an experience unlike any other that I've had," Levine says, adding that it was "spellbindin,north brother island,or shutter island a million people buried there.this is a brown paper bag   show