In the solitude of late winter, Roosevelt Island’s historic Smallpox Hospital exposes its graceful isolation, without leafy trees or tourists intervening.
by David Stone
The Roosevelt Island Daily News
Stark elegance obscures its grim mission, but not so much in winter when the Smallpox Hospital must once have stirred dread among the stricken.
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