nonprofit organization Friends of the Ruin’s proposal to stabilize and adaptively repurpose the ruins of the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island may be the most promising yet. Intended to ...

While today's Roosevelt Island provides some tranquility amid the bustling city, it has a dark history. Blackwell's Island, as it was known in the 1800s and early 1900s, was used to incarcerate ...

Judith Berdy, President of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society reflected ... Until 1875, Renwick Smallpox Hospital, built in the Gothic Revival style, was a dark place. The hospital treated ...

For residents on Roosevelt Island, ghosts and ghouls are more than just a Halloween thrill — they’re something to cause a scare on any given day. The stretch of land on the East River between ...

open image in gallery Roosevelt Island is nice if you are looking ... tourist attraction being the aforementioned derelict smallpox hospital, which visitors can view from a distance due to its ...

In the 19th century, Roosevelt Island was known as Blackwell’s ... “There’s one piece of the lunatic asylum, and the smallpox hospital, which I didn’t write about, is crumbling on the ...

Roosevelt Island is also part of our architectural history ... exempts themselves from any penalties and protection of abandoned landmarks. Thus, the Smallpox Hospital, a government building, has ...

a smallpox hospital, the island’s lighthouse, among others. In a curious theme that would play out for centuries, Roosevelt Island drew the attention of a number of essayists and public ...

When arriving on the F train at the Roosevelt Island station ... visitors can find the ruins of the Smallpox Hospital designed by James Renwick, the same person who designed St. Patrick's Cathedral.

The ruins of Roosevelt Island's smallpox hospital will be getting a little prettier next summer. Roosevelt Islander reports that artist Kathleen Griffin plans to bring 17 giant gold butterflies ...