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The Gotham Center for New York City History

Special Projects
NYC Revolutionary Trail
Gotham Ed
Online Courses
K-12 Programs
Blog
Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History
Editorial Team
Events
Upcoming Events
Past Events
NYC History Festival
Podcasts
COVID University New York (CVNY)
New Books in NYC History (NBN)
Sites and Sounds (OHNY)
Exhibits
Long Island Dirt: Recovering Our Buried Past
Miss Alice Austen and Staten Island's Gilded Age
Babel in Reverse: A History of Linguistic Diversity in Greater New York
The Dawn of Rapid Transit in NYC: LIRR in the Steam Age
Scholarship
Research Projects
Grants & Fellowships
Seminars & Conferences
CUNY Masters Program
Resources
Museums
Archives
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Mike Wallace
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Season 3, Episode 1: North Brother Island

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Randall Mason, co-author of North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City, on this now-abandoned, once-feared part of Gotham’s archipelago, which served for decades as (often forced) quarantine for the ill during various epidemics.

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