Photo Essay: Lost City in the Woods [US]

Architect and photographer Christopher Payne is fascinated with the 
afterlives of buildings. A chronicler of ruins, he has photographed 
disused factories on the East River, the High Line on the West Side, 
outmoded transit electrical substations throughout Manhattan, and, for 
the past few years, shuttered insane asylums and state hospitals across 
the country. Payne’s latest subject is the buildings and landscape of 
North Brother, a derelict hospital island in the Bronx under the 
jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, 
far removed from the cycles of development and change that are 
transforming the city. Evidence of habitation and of the island’s 
checkered history is literally disappearing into the woods.

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http://www.archpaper.com/features/2008_06_lost_city.htm