Another Forward Debunked: Who Knew?

Answer: Sure as hell not the writer of this putrescence.

( Hqiz beneath the cut. )

Lying-In Hospital, New York City

305 Second Avenue, New York, NY.

The hospital where I was born no longer exists as such but has an interesting history. When I entered the world it was still functioning as a birthing hospital, and in fact the facade gives a clue to its former function.


Notice the babies above the doorway.


These tondos grace the entrance and also appear between the rows of windows above the 5th floor.

The tondos were modeled after those that adorn the building that launched Renaissance architecture and saved many abandoned children, Brunelleschi's Spedale degli innocenti, also known as "I figli di nessuno" (the children of no-one).



This stroll down memory lane was brought to mind by an image over at Teresa Burritt's Frog Blog.