I was on Roosevelt Island recently, and was absolutely blown away by the blooming trees on the south-west side of the island, opposite the entrance to the Coler-Goldwater hospital. I’ll let this picture speak for itself:
Really, really beautiful. The petals were falling off the trees and amassing in these huge piles.
They were also piling up on the grass around the dandelions:
And I have to give this curb credit for having the most attractive gutter waste in the city:
Definitely worth a look if you’re in the area. On a related note, if anyone is wondering about the smallpox hospital ruins, you’ll be glad to know that the recent stabilization project was in full swing when I was there, with crews erecting scaffolding that will hopefully save this beautiful relic from falling down.
New Yorkers who have never ventured outside of Manhattan have at least probably seen this lit up from the FDR-North. Non-New Yorkers may recognize it as the final battle location in the first Spider-man movie.
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I was impressed by the same fallen-petal piles on the Columbia campus:
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I was just on RI over Memorial Day weekend, & don’t recall the flowering trees. When were you there?
It was my first time there, & I was amazed at how beautiful the island is, & how clean!!!! It was also about 10 degrees cooler than Manhattan. So close, yet so far away from Manhattan.
I was thrilled to be able to see the smallpox hospital ruins in person, & also happy to see the stabilization in progress. I got all excited, thinking they were actually restoring it, but when I went to the visitors center, the woman told me it was just to stabilize it. The cost just for that is what, $4.75 million? What a shame it took so long to do something. It really is gorgeous, & I got some great pictures of the details, even through the fence.
Smallpox, a highly contagious disease, is unique only to humans. The smallpox virus is caused by two virus variants called Variola major and Variola minor. Variola major is the more deadly form of the virus; it usually has a mortality rte of 20-40 percent of those that are infected with the virus. Variola minor on the other hand is much less severe and only kills 1% of its victims. Neither of the Variola’s are bugs that you want to get. Avoid them at all costs!.:
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