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Back in April there were some updates on the preservation efforts of the 151-year-old smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island, and word is that, as of yesterday, it's been saved from total destruction. However, NY1 reports that Trust for Public Land's Andy Stone "said the restoration process is painstaking and delicate, since every piece that fell down had to catalogued, and there are hundreds of pieces still waiting to be reattached." amNewYork also reports on the city’s only landmarked ruin, noting that aside from those finishing touches, it has "finished a $4.5 million stabilization after a portion collapsed in December 2007." Now that the structure is sturdy once again, ground was broken yesterday for the construction of Southpoint Park, which will encompass both the ruins and the Strecker Lab and will include "two large lawns, a scenic overlook and gardens along the southernmost part of the island." Look forward to frolicking there around Fall 2010.
Smallpox Hospital Saved, Park Construction Underway
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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Way cool!
YAY!!! You can see the hospital from the roof of my building. It's so pretty and awesome in that ruiny sort of way. I'm always tempted to try to sneak in...I wonder if the park thing will make that easier or harder?
Southpoint Park is one of the city's hidden treasures as is -- very underdeveloped plot of land with one of the most amazing wrapped views of midtown, lower Manhattan, and Queens.
Fantastic...now they need to save Admirals Row in Brooklyn and Gate 2 @ Yankee Stadium.
There are actually two separate parks projects that make up Southpoint as a whole. One is a Wild Gardens design that will sit North of the former Smallpox Hospital / Renwick Ruin which will as planned include the former hospital.
South of the hospital is the planned FDR Four Freedoms Park which is separately being funded and where currently visitors can enjoy sweeping 360 degree views of the surrounding river and skyline.
I have issues with the planned trees as they will partially obscure these views but I have a bigger issue with the planned Louis Kahn design as it appears adherance to the original design is all that FERI cares about. No matter how much they smile and listen they do not seem swayed that the local population, including the Roosevelt Island Disabled Association, is asking for some recognition in the design of the fact that FDR was disabled from polio.
Welfare Island was renamed Roosevelt Island for several reasons including its proximity to the United Nations whose founding was based in part on FDR's vision, including the four freedoms but also with the knowledge that the island had and still had a history and current purpose, through its hospitals, as a long term care facility for many individuals like FDR who suffered various disabilities.
http://rooseveltisland360.blogspot.com/search/label/FDR%20Memorial
Actually, they think Roosevelt suffered from a bad case of Guillain-Barré syndrome, not polio. His symptoms didn't really match polio, and he was really too old to get it.
Which isn't to say it shouldn't be acknowledged that he was disabled as he certainly was. But it seems like polio wasn't the cause.
That whole island is creepy.
No ball playing allowed in the park. You might break a window.
Hard to believe this was actually a sound and operational building in 1950. Looks like ruins from the 1600s.
They go fast when you don't fix the roof.
"For lack of a nail, a shingle was lost.
For lack of a shingle, a rafter was lost.
For lack of a rafter, a roof was lost.
For lack of a roof, a building was lost.
For lack of a building, the ....
You get the idea.
All for the want of a lousy roofing nail."
And all along I thought the building deteriorated when Typhoid Mary opened up her unsuccessful cooking school.