1,061 Comments for Riverside Hospital (North Brother Island)

awsome stuff ........ i am inspired to pick up a camera.......

More attractive now then in 1937!

elevator?

Thanks for these photos. this place seemed so interesting but I had no idea! And what an eye for composition,really great work. What else have you done? I'd really like to see more of your work.

Great pictures as usual.

Aha! I figured the lobotomy rooms would surface!

These things are all torture devices. Commonly disguised as the "X-Ray" department.

They stored bodies in there, they just had to cut them up first.

that building looks almost art deco to me

Maybe, they embalmed the bodies before they were taken away to minimize the spread of tuberculosis and other diseases. A very thought invoking image.

Looks like an old embalming table..

Beautiful!

Mr. Motts is not only a first rate photographer, but a first rate writer, also. The introduction to this album reminds me of the writings of Henry David Thoreau in his book, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." I appreciate all the work you share with us, Motts.

I love how the nature has taken over the manmade building, greenery pouring out of every nook and cranny. Great photo!

at Severalls the theatres are downstairs and the surgical ward is upstairs. they had lifts tho. apparently they used to take surgical cases from the general hospital just across the way but i don't know if it was designed with that in mind...