Manhattan General Hospital

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. "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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