Ruins reclaimed by nature

The BBC has an article (with their usual excellent but non-bloggable video) about a forgotten piece of New York City:

It's one of New York's best kept secrets: lying in plain sight of the city is an island which no one has inhabited for more than fifty years.
North Brother Island was once a quarantine station for patients with infectious diseases, then provided accommodation for returning World War Two veterans, and finally was a rehabilitation centre for drug-addicted youths.
But, in 1963, the complex was shut down and abandoned. Left behind was a campus of buildings, many of which have now been reclaimed by vegetation and nesting birds.
The photographer Christopher Payne was granted rare permission to visit the island over the course of a number of years. His images are now on display in his book: North Brother Island. The Last Unknown Place in New York City.

Rico says it's one of those sadly neglected places...