420 Comments for Renwick Smallpox Hospital

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Seeing the art in the stonework of this building makes me want to join a preservation group as soon as possible. Any thoughts people? Do you think those boards were put there by urban exlporers to gain access? One looks like remnants of a rough ladder.
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"Oh Romeo, Romeo! Where for art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name or if thou wilt not be but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet."

Ahhhhhhhhhh...memories...
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sad, it almost looks like a balcony from Romeo & Juliet
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this pic should be a screen saver
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It's too bad you weren't able to lean in a bit more. Would have made this cool shot great!
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Look at the way the walls are leaning. I don't think I'd be brave enough to stand near this structure, let alone climb it!
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I knew I had seen this place before. The only time I went to Roosevelt island I didn't find this place. I believe it's on the opposite side from where i was.
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Is this place still in Roosevelt island?
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u had some guts being there at that time of the day...
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It happens because people just want a few bucks in their pockets and nothing more.
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Nice picture! It looks like it is an old castle! In surprised how people can let a place like this fall down!
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Imagine you worked here, like, forever ago (okay I know you'd probally be dead but ssssshhh) and you come back and see it like this..meep..I'd feel so uncomfortable...and sad...in a way, abandoning these places is like disrespecting the people who once lived and died there.
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This looks loke one of those castles from 16 century
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It looks like a castle!
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Scott, they tore down a pre-Civil War Era stone prison to build condos in my town.