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Abandoned smallpox hospital is a reminder of diseases gone by (9 photos)

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I’m looking forward to doing a CHIVE post in 20 years called “Abandoned Cancer hospital is a reminder of disease gone by”…

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  • dc-chiver

    surprised a horror movie hasn't been filmed there.

    • equalizermax

      The movie Shutter Island was based on this hospital

      • tony

        but wasn't that a mental hospital in the movie?

      • Big E

        The movie Shutter Island was based on a book, called Shutter Island

        • tony

          i know that, but it was a mental hospital right?

      • R-Dub

        You just love making shit up, dont you?

      • Katie

        I'm pretty sure it was based on the mental hospital on the same island as this hospital. But not ON this hospital. This was for people with pox, not schizophrenics and others that were crudely cast aside in society.

  • Enon

    Great post. I love seeing stuff like this.

  • mitter78

    creepy hospital is .. creepy.

    • Chivalrous

      #4
      Angry brick wall is angry.

  • KCJake

    "I’m looking forward to doing a CHIVE post in 20 years called “Abandoned Cancer hospital is a reminder of disease gone by”

    That would be a good post. Let's hope for sooner than twenty years, though.

    • http://echogeo.wordpress.com/ echogeo

      http://phoenixtears.ca/
      This is not a joke.

      • suomynona

        Holy shit! Hemp oil? For real?

    • Reality

      NEVER happen. there is waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much money in killing people than there is in curing them. sad but true. Good job America!

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=545403343 Ryan White

        because somehow america is responsible for healing the entire world? think before you speak

        • Cecil

          NO, it just turns out that in other countries they make far more effort to get rid of the cancer before it reaches terminal (thus more profitable) stages. Try reading, thinking or pretending you comprehend before defensively spewing from a place of blind, irrational patriotism.

        • Malkintosh22

          America's health system is one of the worst in the developed world. Look at Canada or even France. Bankruptcy is rampant in those who require heavy medical attention in America because of the corporations that make the medicines and those who administer them.

  • Guest

    Isn't this the same "hotel" that was used in the Michael J. Fox classic, "For Love or Money"?

    • Robi5150

      I was thinking the same thing.

    • tophernator

      Isn't this the same hotel that was "used" in the Michael J. Fox "classic", For Love or Money?

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1427675951 Brian Ahrens

      Definitely the same place

  • http://man-lair.com Stafferty

    Who's up for some paint ball? I know a place.

  • graphicshero

    One of New York city's nick names is Gotham. Is this… could this be Arkham? or maybe its original inspiration? I mean an island between queens and Manhattan that held a prison and insane asylum… i don't thinks its that far of a stretch.

    • http://www.facebook.com/shane.belaire Shane Belaire

      Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham

  • Kyle

    Step 1: Buy building
    Step 2: Fix it up
    Step 3: ????
    Step 4: Awesome zombie-proof fortress for inevitable Apocalypse.

    • tophernator

      This looks like the sort of place the zombie apocalypse would begin. Just accept it; nowhere is safe!

      • Malkintosh22

        Costco is safe

  • guest

    "I’m looking forward to doing a CHIVE post in 20 years called “Abandoned Cancer hospital is a reminder of disease gone by”… " right on!

    • Ali

      That would be nice…….but with our government, not a chance! All the money they make off cancer patients, they will never allow a cure!!

  • yo yo ma

    I believe this hospital is actually on North Brother Island, also a stone's throw from Queens. Very creepy place. They used this in that show about what would happen if humans disappeared from the planet to show how quickly our infrastructure and building would decay without upkeep.

  • asdf

    That would be an awesome place to play paint ball

  • StayCalm

    Lots of great (similar) buildings and photos found here: http://www.opacity.us/locations/

    • Gern Blanston

      Thanks for the link, thats a cool site

  • hrpomrx

    Great place for a camping trip.

  • http://www.facebook.com/chrisatrice69 Christopher DeMunbrun

    I actually live on Roosevelt Island (The North Side, the hospital in the pictures is located on the south side) at a building called the octagon ( http://www.octagonnyc.com/ ) which use to be an old asylum for crazy women (now renovated, but I still manage to bring crazy women home with me).

    They are actually building a FDR memorial right next to this old hospital ( http://ny.curbed.com/tags/fdr-memorial )

    Some movies were filmed here already; Dark Water, Salt and Spiderman.

    Cheers and happy Monday!

    • ChiveOn Rsvlt Is

      I live there too, on the north side in the same building. Chive on!

      • http://www.facebook.com/chrisatrice69 Christopher DeMunbrun

        We should probably walk over there and take some Chive pics!

    • Katherine,

      Wait… You live in an old asylum….?
      That's freaking awesome.

      • chrisatrice69

        Until the ghosts come….

  • Submit

    Fuck cancer!

    • Tantrum

      Get money?

  • xDV8x

    I don't think these are as creepy as the abandoned amusement parks are.

  • John

    Wasn´t this building featured in some mission in GTA4?

  • The_Dood

    Reminds me of the TB one in Ohio that I explored years ago… Only that one didn't look like a castle like this does. It was still awesome though. I really wish there was a way to legally go and explore places like this. Exploring abandoned places is a way better way to spend a Saturday night than just sitting around getting drunk and playing video games.

  • Chuck

    That is a beautiful building, I would love to own that and turn it into a hotel.

  • Ashley

    So…..
    Shutter island is real?

  • Danger_Pat

    #4 Rarrr!

    • hello kitty

      Thought the same thing lol

  • Bless1

    Noice to shoot nudes for October on the Chive calendar.

  • Smitty

    Zombie apocalypse hideout maybe? A bit run down, but it could be built back up. Most of those edifices look pretty solid… and fortress like.

  • http://twitter.com/Poopy_McPoop @Poopy_McPoop

    Maybe the guys of Ghost Adventures will film an episode there.

  • http://echogeo.wordpress.com/ echogeo

    Has that Ghost Hunter crew ever spent a night there?

    • http://www.facebook.com/charles.pandorf Charles Pandorf

      I don't think TAPS has ever done an investigation there.

    • Nathanial Hörnblowér

      GhostFacers spent the night there

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