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North Brother Island

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

North Brother Island

By Robert Sullivan, Randall Mason

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About the book

Few people today have ever heard of North Brother Island, though a hundred years ago it was place known to--and often feared by--nearly everyone in New York City. The island, a small dot in the East River, twenty acres slotted between today's gritty industrial shores of the Bronx and Queens, was a minor piece of the New York archipelago until the late 19th century, when calls for social and sanitary reform--and the massive expansion of the city's population--combined to remake NBI as a hospital ...Show more

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9780823257713

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published year

2014

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1

Original title

North Brother Island

Format

Hardcover

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