Smallpox Hospital
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Smallpox Hospital is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is FDR Hope Memorial, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 6.8 miles off.
The story
The Smallpox Hospital, sometimes referred to as the Renwick Smallpox Hospital and later the Maternity and Charity Hospital Training School, was a hospital located on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York City. Originally designed by architect James Renwick Jr., the 100-bed hospital opened in 1856, when the area was known as Blackwell's Island. A century after it opened, the hospital was closed, and the building eventually fell into disrepair. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and designated a New York City Landmark four years later, the only ruin in the city with that designation. After the completion of an ongoing $4.5 million stabilization project, the Smallpox Hospital ruins will be open to the public.
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Dates from 1856.
Wikidata Q1448490, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 6.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 7.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 24.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- FDR Hope Memorial: 0.0 mi
- Motherboard Meditation: 0.3 mi
- Roots and Ties for Peace: 0.3 mi
- Consciousness: 0.3 mi
- Arrival: 0.3 mi
- Southpoint Park: 0.1 mi
- FDR Four Freedoms State Park: 0.1 mi
- Peter Detmold Park: 0.3 mi
- Clara Coffey Park: 0.3 mi
- Campus Plaza: 0.3 mi
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 0.2 mi
- Clara Coffey Tablet: 0.3 mi
- Bronka Novak Tablet: 0.3 mi
- Irving Berlin: 0.3 mi
- Lowell Kingsley Hanson: 0.4 mi
- Pepsi-Cola Sign: 0.3 mi
- United Nations Headquarters: 0.4 mi
- Roosevelt Island Sign: 0.5 mi
- Freedom plaza: 0.7 mi
- Blackwell House: 0.7 mi
- Entry Court: 0.3 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.4 mi
- Katharine Hepburn Garden: 0.5 mi
- LIC Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- Amster Yard: 0.6 mi
- Mount Vernon Hotel Museum: 0.6 mi
- Underpenny Museum Antique & Collectables: 0.7 mi
- MoMA PS1: 0.8 mi
- The AKC Museum of the Dog: 0.9 mi
- Society of Illustrators: 1.0 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 1.3 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 1.5 mi
- Bird Island: 4.3 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.9 mi
- Riverbend Wetlands Preserve: 6.8 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 1.8 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 2.8 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 3.4 mi
- Pebble Beach: 3.6 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 4.0 mi
- Vista Rock: 2.0 mi
- Summit Rock: 2.2 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.4 mi
- Great Hill: 3.1 mi
- Kings Bluff: 3.3 mi
- Street Seats: 0.6 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 3.8 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 4.2 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 4.5 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 4.5 mi
- Palisades: 3.5 mi
- Palisades: 4.3 mi
- Palisades: 4.4 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.7 mi
- Palisades: 9.7 mi
- The Loch: 3.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 6.1 mi
- Binnen Falls: 6.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 6.2 mi
- The Falls: 11.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 4.1 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 14.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 14.5 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 20.2 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 20.2 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 6.2 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 13.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 20.8 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 20.8 mi
- Barber: 21.9 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 22.9 mi
- Tulip Springs: 17.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.8 miles of Smallpox Hospital. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 321° | 268 m | 19.6 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 320° | 260 m | 20.7 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 320° | 230 m | 19.4 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 5° | 208 m | 20.6 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 318° | 185 m | 21.1 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 318° | 180 m | 20.8 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 286° | 179 m | 15.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 275° | 175 m | 17.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/29185374
Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Midtown East · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Theater District · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 1 mi
- Queens/Long Island City and Astoria · 1 mi
- Manhattan · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 2 mi
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