INHABITING MNEMONIC DESIGN ON ROOSEVELT ISLAND

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:          Janet Falk Phone: 212-677-5770  INHABITING  MNEMONIC  DESIGN  ON  ROOSEVELT  ISLAND  Window Display Invites Memory and Creation in Depiction of Artists’ Residence within Ruins (Roosevelt Island, NY, July 19, 2011) – Mnemonic design involves “a personal connection to a space,” according to Ellen Ivanits. Her plan for an artists’ residence built in […]

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Starting the New Year with a Crumble

From the City Room of the New York Times Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island CrumblesBy David W. Dunlap The hauntingly abandoned, Gothically forbidding Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island — perhaps New York City’s most romantic ruin — turned far less romantic and even more ruined last month when part of its crumbling gray stone facade […]

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