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Emma Dorfman

Oct 19, 2026

12:38
We pull out our umbrellas and walk south.
12:40
So it was called Welfare Island because it was an island of misfits.
12:45
It was basically where you put anyone who didn't belong.
12:51
So they famously have a smallpox hospital here.
12:54
They also had one of New York's first lunatic asylums on the island.
13:00
They've had several hospitals.
13:03
All of these institutions, the hospital, sanatorium, prison, were all clumped at the south end of this island, which is where we're heading towards.

8 MINS LATER

21:10
... and still the Promised Land.

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