Blackwell's Island (w/ NY's penal & charity institutions)
Blackwell's Island (w/ NY's penal & charity institutions)
Clip: 493257_1_1
Year Shot: 1903
(Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1152
Original Film: H32034
HD: N/A
Location: New York, NY, USA
Timecode: 01:42:15 - 01:44:51
"Panorama of Blackwell's Island, N.Y." which was at the time the location for a whole bunch of places for warehousing "undesirables" of one sort or another - -criminals, the mentally ill, the indigent ill, poor people, etc. Film is shot from boat going along the eastern shore of Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island). Small lighthouse at north end of island ("Hallet's Cove"). New York City Lunatic Asylum, the Workhouse, the Almshouse. Piers for the Queensboro or 59th Street Bridge, which is not yet built; beside it the Almshouse Keeper's House. Past the Penitentiary and finally Charity Hospital. The film ends before reaching the southern tip of the island.