5/8/2012
15:01 (639 notes)
philadelphia, psychotherapy, decay, ruin porn, steven bley, abandoned, beauty, Flickr,
o l i g o p t i c o n
a place through which the world passes,
for the sustenance of that place and our situated selves,
and for our very sense of being in-place.
a place from which we go to a world which is immediate and present and to hand.
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3/22/2012
12:40 (336 notes)
Flickr, urban reuse, italia, nature, vs, geometry, composition, ruin porn,
11/1/2011
16:00 (46 notes)
photography, ruin porn, stalled development, america!, desert, desertification, deserted awesome places, suburbs,
10/4/2011
9:31 (109 notes)
Silencio, Thomas Jorion, architecture, buildings, construction, decay, design, photography, ruin porn, ruins, repetition,
1/27/2011
17:20 (7 notes)
islands in new york, deserted awesome places, ruin porn, typhoid mary, hospitals,north brother island, riverside hospital
Of all the forgotten and mysterious places in the Five Boroughs of New York City, few have histories as rich and interesting as that of North Brother Island. Situated in the Hell Gate, a particularly treacherous stretch of the East River, North Brother was home to the quarantine hospital that housed Typhoid Mary, was the final destination of the General Slocum during its tragic final voyage, and was the site of an experimental drug treatment program which failed due to corruption. Riverside Hospital, the name of the facility on the island throughout its various incarnations, treated everything from smallpox and leprosy to venereal disease and heroin addiction; after the Second World War, it housed soldiers who were studying under the GI bill. The entirety of the island has been abandoned since 1963; over a dozen buildings remain, in various states of disrepair.
