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NYC's Abandoned North Brother Island to House Learning School for Autistic Children

Ian M. Ellis and Frances Peterson, two architecture students are planning to construct a learning school for autistic children on New York City's North Brother Island. The 20-acre island which is located between the Bronx and Riker's Island has been abandoned for the past 43 years. The island was a site of a disastrous shipwreck, a smallpox clinic, a tuberculosis colony, housing for World War II soldiers and a drug rehab facility.