An Abandoned Mansion In NYC Raises Questions

The Nurses’ Home

The nurses’ home had stunning architectural features like the cast iron staircase that still stands today. This staircase connected three contiguous floors on the oldest portion of the Nurses’ home.

Today, the Nurses’ home is one of the creepier buildings on the island. Radiolab, who managed to visit the island in 2011, saw something rather unsettling within the crumbling walls. The building may have been taken over by nature, but humans were definitely there in the sort of recent past. The outer door was perforated with bullet holes, but these bullet holes weren’t entrance wounds. Someone was shot at from inside the nurses’ home. What exactly happened remains a mystery.