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

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i watched a ducumentry on the island and this was apperantly a drug addict that wrote this...one that was being treated there.
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this was one of the rooms used for rehabilitating drug addicts....they were locked away, and went through withdrawl cold turkey....sometimes if it was really, really bad they would taper the patient off over a three day period but most often it was done cold turkey. AMAZING shots Motts!!!
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Fake or not - this inspires a story for me to write. :)
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"this used to be a funhouse"....
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it used to be a detention center, too. so it might just be one of them...(not that we don't believe you, catlady)
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send in the clowns....
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Motts, I don't mean to sound like a giggling school girl, but these galleries fascinate me to no end. What I find particularly interesting about this set is how well this facility has held up over the decades given the fact if closed in 1963.
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that location looks amazing! same with the pics!!
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oh man, thats a nice picture
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The writing goes from the top right, to the bottom right, then over to the bottom left. This is what makes it confusing, but you can see the arrows he drew. It says:
Jerry
Hawkins
Did 30
Days In
Seclusion
(Arrow down)
This is
TRUE!
(Arrow down)
Ask the
ANY of
the Nurses
if they
(Arrow to the left)
Remember
Me

There is a large word or date scrawled on the bottom but I can't tell what that is
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I've seen hundreds of pictures on this site and never posted, but this one amazes me. Its almost eerie to see the power nature has to return things to its natural state.
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COMPRESSORES NA PARTE DE CIMA? DEVE SER BEM ANTIGA ESSAS GELADEIRAS!
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Very surreal & dangerous looking.
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Nature always wins. It might take 10,000 years, but at the end of the day, nature will emerge victorious.
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My father was a vet of wwII and we lived on the island 1950-51 while he went to school. I was about 6or 7 at the time. I don't remember the hospital but I do remember the big home and the fence all around the island. I really enjoyed the pictures because they were well done and keep the history of the island alive.