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A Visit to Typhoid Mary's Domain

22.02.12

It took five minutes of wading through jungly vines. “I think we’re standing where her house used to be,” he said.

Her house. Daniel Avila did not have to say who she was: Typhoid Mary. The cook who carried a deadly disease and infected more than 50 New Yorkers in the early years of the 20th century.

Mr. Avila has made a specialty of photographing off-limits places cared for by his employer, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation — places the public cannot go. So here he was on North Brother Island , “a 20-acre knob of glacial detritus which pokes out of the East River about 2,500 feet west of Rikers Island.”

That description came from someone who never actually set foot on North Brother, the author and chef Anthony Bourdain, who published a 148-page book about Typhoid Mary in 2001. Mr. Bourdain called North Brother “a ramshackle Alcatraz” where Typhoid Mary — real name: Mary Mallon — was confined. Those who do not see her as a cold-hearted killer, someone who knew she was putting people in danger just by handling their food, would end the last sentence with a word like, say, incarcerated.

Source: New York Times (blog)

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