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

Way cool composition, I love the decay in the top too

Was that on the inside or the outside of the door?

Scalding even!

Love the shape of the building

Fine set!

Whoa... amazing shot.

I am not one to jump on the wallpaper bandwagon, but damn....

Wallpaper please... :)

my guess is that it's to prevent patients from jumping out of the window or scolding themselves?

Thanks for posting the new pics.

I have to admit that though I adore the architecture, I would find myself leafing through all the old paperwork I i was in a position to do so.

Somehow that small window into such a PERSONAL element of these old buildings is very enthralling to me. I always tend to find the pictures of old notices and paperwork the most intriguing of Motts' wonderful photos. I guess I'm just nosy!

I does shock me though, how often patients' personal notes are just left scattered about the place for anyone to come along and read. Same for personal belongings and so on. Seems so... thoughtless. Perhaps everyone thought that someone else would come a long and clean it up before the building was locked for the final time.

Do you ever read the paperwork Motts? or does it all become a bit too much of the same after a while?

The banding effect just showed up naturally after I really pushed the exposure... I notice that they show up here and there in long exposures and low light photos.

I believe it was a nurse's station, or pharmacy, but I can't be absolutely sure.

Definitely a soap dispenser!

Sure, a number of people have been on the island after it was abandoned... whether or not they took the time to write all this stuff on the walls seem unlikely to me. There was a lot more scrawled out than what I captured.

I'm not convinced that's authentic [as in, written by a patient]. More likely someone joking around after closure.

Surely anything like that written while the hospital was operating ould have been cleaned off or covered up? Hardly good PR for the other patients or visitors!