59 Comments Posted by Mandy

Here is a paragraph with diffrent info from the link I provided above,

Adam Berwid: In 1978, on Long Island, Berwid fatally stabbed his wife in the neck. Then, with his two children, he sat up all night over the body. He signed for a telegram for his wife the next morning. The telegram warned her that Berwid had escaped from another psychiatric facility

http://archive.recordo...4/01/11/nhforens.htm

Okay, so since I am out west now, sadly, and you guys mostly seem to be back East.... It may be off topic, but PLEASE tell me the old "smallpox hospital" ruins on "Welfare Island" in the East river are still there? Or is it Roosevelt Island? I remember dying to go there and look growing up and never got the chance. I used to look over from my apartment on the East side. I am talkign more than ten years since I left so my info is "fuzzy", but someone please tell me they have not torn it down and developed it? It was like the ruins of an old castle, just lying there... Or did it just look like that to me as a kid?

I think it's an amazing picture. So simple and such depth....

I don't know, the colour suits the room. It IS so sad to me. To see the mattress still there, so "new" creeps me out. Everything/place hold's a persons vast history and these pictures are all so deep to me.. they are very moving. Losing these places, or I should say, the buildings, at least; is such a travesty.
Thanks, keep them coming

Working in pharmacy and knowing the desire to " get get get", esp. from teenagers and dumbasses - if they WERE meds no one would have left them sit there a day.

as it's been stated, people don't "swallow their tongue" that is a myth. And YES, I am speaking from first hand experience, I have had a few in my life. Thank GOD only a few, but it doesnt happen. I bit the helll out of it and left teeth marks in my tongue, but you DON'T swallow it - wive's tale,

mayb they should knock the building down instead of letting it rot..

y are there flowers there??

imagine how many drug addics live in there now...

we heard weird noises in the hallways. we ran our asses outta there.

I WAS IN HERE TODAY!! i swear its messed up...

These photos are all absolutely brilliant. Nancy's right--it's a sin to let such beatuiful buildings rot away when the massive funds invested to restore them could easily be regained many times over. I'm not sure I'd want to turn it into apartments, however--a place like this, I'd want all to myself!

I just can't get over how beautiful and serene it looks. It has a romantic rusticness (is that a word?) about it, the sort of place where Hemingway would work on his latest stories. Just amazing.

Except for myself and a few other cousins who were also born too late, all of the women in my mom's family attended Bennet at some point from the '50s through the '70s (my mom actually attended Bennet with her own niece who was barely a week younger). I think Pat Ratchet was quite right: from what I've been told, it was very much a "Mona Lisa Smile," Buffy/Muffy/Cookie sort of school for affluent girls to learn how to land equally affluent husbands. But I'll have you know that the women in my family have dark hair, not blonde! I don't know if they ever had flings with Timothy Leary, but for humor's sake, I certainly hope so.

you would never find me walking in that door you would see me runing the other way