Our Chivettes have dominated my inbox once again. The audience for Sexy Chivers continues to skyrocket as our Chivette prove to the world that you don't need photoshop to be beautiful. Due to the number of Chivette submissions, if you submitted in the last few days, check next week's SC for your photo. I'm traveling to NY later this week to scout locations for our New York meetup so this will likely be your SC dose for the week. We do have some very cool things planned for this Friday though and I'll be featuring multiple Chivettes this week as well. Also, it really helps if you mark your email 'Sexy Chivers' or 'Chivette', otherwise your boobs might become forever suspended in the floating matrix that is the Chive Submit Inbox. 

AWESOME INSTRUCTIONS: Grab your camera (phone) and write 'Hi Chivers' on a sign or some part of your body (be as creative as you like). Then use our handy-dandy upload page to send pics to thechivesubmit [at] gmail [dot] com and collect internet fame. Above all: Be Creative. Do it for your country!
 Chive On! - John

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According to ArtificialOwl.com, this smallpox hospital was Opened in 1856, on the southern tip of Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island) was part of a multitude of public institutions to care for New York City's unfortunate and destitute. The island sits between Queens and Manhattan, and was easily accessible by ferry; it was home to a prison, insane asylum, and other similar facilities. As of 1872, an annual number of 7,000 patients were treated, with an average of 450 deaths. The island was renamed Welfare Island in 1921, and in the 1950s many of the institutions on the island became obsolete and were abandoned.