Manhattan General Hospital

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Manhattan General Hospital[1] is a defunct hospital that also used the name Manhattan Hospital and relocated more than once, using buildings that serially served more than one hospital, beginning in the 1920s.

History[]

Alfred A. Richman, who had opened a "private sanitarium at 50 West Seventy-fourth Street" in 1925,[2] subsequently "founded Manhattan General Hospital."[1] The name was transplanted to more than one location: "Lying-In moved uptown, and Manhattan General Hospital moved in. And when Manhattan General went uptown" the building became still another medical facility: a drug-abuse treatment center.[3] The sale of Manhattan General's 161 East Ninetieth Street 9-story building to Beth David Hospital facilitated purchasing an adjacent site to construct an 11-story building.[4]

Manhattan General merged with Mount Sinai Beth Israel in 1964[1] and closed; the MGH buildings became co-op apartments.[5][6][7][8]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Dr. Alfred Richman, 92, Dies; Founded Hospital in the City". The New York Times. December 11, 1984.
  2. ^ "EVICTION STAY WON BY SANITARIUM HEAD; Supreme Court Grants Grace to Dr. Richman in Contest With Warren Smadbeck. HARM TO PATIENTS FEARED Some Would Be Imperiled by Move, It is Contended--Marshal Seizes Furniture". The New York Times. June 9, 1928.
  3. ^ Alan S. Oser (March 29, 1985). "Conversion of Hospital to Apartments". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "HOSPITAL PLANS 11-STORY BUILDING; Manhattan General Buys Site Adjoining Present Home in East 90th Street". The New York Times. September 29, 1934.
  5. ^ "Hospital Moves 52 To Its New Home - Manhattan General Patients Are Taken Safely to Former Lying-In Building - Shift Is Made In Four Hours - Four Ambulances Make 10 Trips Each Between East 90th St. and Stuyvesant Square". New York Times. July 27, 1936. p. 13. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  6. ^ "City and Suburban News - New York". New York Times. May 17, 1880. p. 8. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  7. ^ "The New Manhattan Hospital - Great Need for the Institution and Good Work Promised". New York Times. December 13, 1885. p. 10. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  8. ^ Jones, Theodore (August 21, 1964). "Beth Israel Buys General Hospital - The Manhattan to be Taken Over Sept. 1 - City Seeking Narcotics Center Pact - No Changes For Staff - Purchase Is Called Step for Establishment of Medical Center on Lower East Side". New York Times. p. 31. Retrieved October 12, 2015.

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