I'M 2 NYC
I'M 2 NYC
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Metropolitan Hospital School of Nurses in hospital’s rotunda in December 1942 (note the Christmas tree). Welfare Island, as it was then known, began life as Blackwell's Island and housed a lunatic asylum, the first in the city of New York and the first municipal mental hospital in the country. In 1894 the asylum building was taken over by Metropolitan Hospital and continued to operate there until 1955, when it moved to Manhattan, leaving the former asylum abandoned.
Today, Blackwell’s/Welfare Island is Roosevelt Island and contains housing developments. All that remains of the former asylum is the central octagon tower in the rotunda, which made up the center of the original building. The building was restored when it was incorporated into a new apartment complex.
I'M 2 NYC
4h ·
Metropolitan Hospital School of Nurses in hospital’s rotunda in December 1942 (note the Christmas tree). Welfare Island, as it was then known, began life as Blackwell's Island and housed a lunatic asylum, the first in the city of New York and the first municipal mental hospital in the country. In 1894 the asylum building was taken over by Metropolitan Hospital and continued to operate there until 1955, when it moved to Manhattan, leaving the former asylum abandoned.
Today, Blackwell’s/Welfare Island is Roosevelt Island and contains housing developments. All that remains of the former asylum is the central octagon tower in the rotunda, which made up the center of the original building. The building was restored when it was incorporated into a new apartment complex.