Perspectives

Title: Midtown East. Looking out at the East River in New York City, on the left across the river in the borough of Queens, are two of the red-and-white striped stacks of the Ravensport generating station, a.k.a. Big Allis, for the Allis-Chalmers industrial machinery corporation. One of its units was the world’s first 100-million kilowatt generator in the world in 1965. On the right is the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. In between are Roosevelt Island and the Roosevelt Island tram, the latter providing the only direct passage to/from Manhattan besides by boat, though the bridge used to have a vehicular elevator down to the island from 1934–1955. Currently a residential area, it was the site of several hospitals serving incarcerated, indigent, psychiatric, long-term, and smallpox patients. Coler Specialty Hospital remains active. This image is dedicated to the memory of my father Richard S. Hauben, MD, who completed a rotating internship and internal medicine residency on Roosevelt Island a very long time ago.