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

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I love the before & after pics. This place was once alive & beautiful. It's a shame it can't be saved and refurbished. But it would cost a fortune to bring it up to code.
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House O' Cards
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That give new meaning to the term "Nuclear food"
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it would be so nice to have a cabinet there.. to watch the sunrise and paint stuff.. and after the sunset to light a lamp and read some book in the all embracing silence, what would be everything just for me.
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wow :) i love places like this. this could be the perfect imagery for "silent" and "hope" too :)
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so beautiful destruction.
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great. this is like the cabinet in the Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood
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Quite an amazing image!

If you consider those young trees growing unhindered in front of the deteriorated structure, it becomes apparent that humans and our creations, are but a temporary slur in time, slowly being overcome by nature. When we finally end up killing ourselves I can only imagine how beautiful it must be to see all those city turns into ruins as nature slowly destroys them wiping the last trace of our existence with them.
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Father Daniel Egan gave services there to HIS addicts.God Bless Them All
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have u ever heard of The Junkie Priest?????
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i googled this site because of an old book i found and am reading"the Junkie Priest,Father Daniel Egan S.A. By John D.Harris"he helped alot of drug addicts,especially women.he was definately before his time...great pics
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I bet they took the dead bodies out that door!
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Motts, I sure hope you get your tetanus shots when going through places like these.
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What else did you write?
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Very similar to precincts or fire houses.