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flickr EXPLORE: 05 August 2005 #482
From: Raveged Series - SR Smith Infirmery. Staten Island, NYC: 03_03
Get ready to put on your insufferable scholar glasses!
This was Staten Island's first ever not-for-profit voluntary hosiptal, built in 1889, and named after a "Dr. of the People", Mr. Samuel R. Smith. The grounds stand at 6 acres & also hold the reminents of the first ever training school for nurses (e:1891).
In 1970, the decision was made to relocate to larger facilities elsewhere. What happened between then & 1991, when the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission failed to designate & regulate S.R. Smith is anyone's guess.
This grevious failure on their part led to a string of failed developers to strip it of its once magnificent architectural detail, leaving it in its current shameful state.
I don't know about you folks elsewhere, but growing up in Charleston, SC, the ridiculous amount of importantce placed on architectural gems has preserved some of the most beautiful structures in North America. This love of home mentailty went so far as to change the capital of SC from Charleston to Columbia during the Civil War soas to spare the resulting destructive ravaging fires. Union soldiers, wanting to spare Charleston willingly participated the wink, wink! Now where is that collective appreciation today?
The former hospital grounds are owned by a holdings company called Kenilworth Holdings, LLC. The trail is so convoluted that it is difficult to say exactly whose "interests" they represent, but it's certainly not anyone in our community.
I visit every season to watch the rapid demise of a once grand & noble structure, soley built to aid "the common working man". Ironically, I bump into countless addicts, unruly teen gang members & countless homeless individuals who have claimed the space as their own each time I go. What the heck, there are splendid views of the Statue of Liberty & Manhattan from the top floor.
If you happen to run into anyone even loosely associated with Kenilworth, kindly deck them on my behalf.
I think it's about time for my summer visit...sniff.
I discovered photography through my enthusiasm for London buses. You can check out my main Flickr profile as the London Bus Breh and my articles on London Connected.
Pictured is one of only two Irizar i2e buses in London. Based at New Cross Bus Garage, they are my favourite single-deckers and are allocated to route 108, the only London bus service directly linking southeast to east London.
This photo is a more scenic-focused take of the same uploaded here, with a wider field-of-view revealing the new developments defining Stratford City. It was actually the original upload before I replaced it for the more subject-focused version.
I would like to express more in a blogpost once I get a new blog running - watch this space!
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A tree soars skywards, wrapping its roots around a wall at the Khmer Ta Prohm temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The temple complex abounds with such examples of the jungle and the temple becoming one, a process that has taken centuries to develop.
They say photography is the recording of light, lines, shapes and color. This is the underside of the Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge and what I consider to be my first photograph. This is my first photo where I saw the recording of light and lines and shapes and color in the image I capture. I had posted this years ago but I decided to re-process to see if I have learned anything over the years.
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