420 Comments for Renwick Smallpox Hospital

Permission? What's permission?

But seriously, you don't need permission to photograph this ruin, although you are not allowed behind the fence in the day and no where near the place at night.

These pictures are fantastic. Did you have to get special permission to take photos of this?

Super fantastic lighting

smallpox now exists (allegedly) in two jars, one in russia, one in the us.

how the heck do things like this fall in to disrepair like this?... this building should be restored would it be expensive hell yeah but in the end you would have a sweet arse building that has some interesting history behind it albeit weird.

Hmm... afraid of getting small pox, huh?

Don't know much about medicine, do ya?

Okay, I don't like to say, "Hey, do you see the face in that window" 'cause it's a little cheesy, but.... hey, do you see that face in the middle top window?? I think it's damn creepy, even if it's an illusion

the third window on the bottom to the right there appears to be somthing there that i dont think is supposed to be there!!!!!!

i ekil siht! ti si yrev looc. i tndluow og ereht i dlouw eb diarfa fo gintteg llams xop. by the way this backwords

That would be the contagious disease hospital on North Brother Island, home of Typhoid Mary; they helped the survivors of the General Slocum fire on June 15, 1904. 1,021 people died, mostly women and children.

North Bother Island is between Queens and the Bronx, Renwick is on Roosevelt Island (formerly known as Blackwell's Island) which is between Queens and Manhattan.

i think this was a hospitol that tried to save people on a boat that was on fire cause a hosptiol was used as a holiding site for the dead bodies and to help survivors i forget the name of the boat but it was on the history channel like a year ago but it was intersting cause it had to deal with a hospitol that was secluded im not sure if it was this one or if there are many othere hospitols around like it fromt he time period......i will have to look into this much more

About 2 seconds.

HaaHaa i guess i should look at all the pics before i ask questions eh

hey motts what light source did you use to get thislightsing. and howlong was your exposure set??

Awesome shot Motts. In fact the whole gallery is excellent. Keep it up!!!