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the third window on the bottom to the right there appears to be somthing there that i dont think is supposed to be there!!!!!!
DEZAREIGH
Mon 04-04-2005
Damn, really nice pic...love the bridge in the back
Jiggathavip
Wed 06-22-2005
Great View...
Frank.k
Sun 09-25-2005
Imagine you worked here, like, forever ago (okay I know you'd probally be dead but ssssshhh) and you come back and see it like this..meep..I'd feel so uncomfortable...and sad...in a way, abandoning these places is like disrespecting the people who once lived and died there.
Poisonousxbeauty
Tue 12-13-2005
I knew I had seen this place before. The only time I went to Roosevelt island I didn't find this place. I believe it's on the opposite side from where i was.
Nocturno
Sat 01-21-2006
It almost looks like a war zone. Reminds me of Grozny
Raymond
Mon 03-13-2006
i love america that view of the bridge makes ythe photo which bridge is that motts my u.s mate
lisa
Fri 08-04-2006
I love the contrast between the lights of the bustling city and the abandoned, forgotten hospital . It adds a nice touch to the photo.
Amy
Sun 03-25-2007
I know it's a old pic, but that's not the Verrazano bridge.

That would be the Williamsburgh Bridge. The curve of Greenpoint/Williamsburgh & The Brookly Navy yard prevent you from seeing the Verrazano bridge from any point on Roosevelt island. Not to mention how Manhattan dips out a little.

But the fence is still up, and i guess winter is the best time to go. it's full of so many people in the summer.
Bucky Katt
Fri 07-27-2007
Wow the bridge and the lights in the back makes the old place look really isolated. I like the effect ! even though it's sad.
Rome
Sat 12-15-2007
No words for this represented contrast... but some: would the ones we forget for any reason still look us from far away like old, like decayed but still strong and perfectly standing like if they didn't care, but still watching us maybe just for curiosity?... but what noodles my mind is who is watching who?
Thank you very much for the shot Motts, but I would take the civilization off, but in the other hand it wouldn't make me had that last thought which will haunt my mind tonite.
KEMPKES
Sun 02-03-2008
I remember going to Welfare Island about 1960 because my maternal grandfather was a terminal patient at Bird S Coler hospital also on the island. My father took us to the end where the old hospital was and he seemed to be very interested in the old bldg but didn't share why
It was 30 yrs later as I did a family tree that I discovered that my paternal grandfather died at Metropolitan Hospital in 1935
In 1961 there was still debris from the old hospital around like wooden wheel chairs and old equipment , probably because it really looked like a haunted house in those days
michael
Fri 12-19-2008
THE SADNESS AFTER ALL THIS YEAR IS INCREDIBLE.
CARMEN E SMITH
Sat 10-31-2009

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