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The Manhattan Psychiatric Center is a New York-state run psychiatric hospital on Wards Island in New York City. As of 2009, it was licensed for 509 beds, but holds only around 200 patients. The current building is 17 stories tall. [1] The building strongly resembles the main building of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.
Manhattan State Hospital can refer to two New York State run psychiatric hospitals for residents of Manhattan that now have different names following state takeovers in the 1890s: Manhattan Psychiatric Center on Wards Island in New York City; Central Islip Psychiatric Center in Central Islip, New York
Manhattan Psychiatric Center, 600 East 125th Street, Ward's Island, Manhattan. Opened as The New York City Asylum for the Insane in July 1868, renamed Manhattan State Hospital on February 28, 1896, renamed Manhattan Psychiatric Center and split into Dunlap, Kirby, and Meyer divisions in the 1970s. [30] [31] [32] [33]
The Manhattan State Hospital was founded on Wards Island in 1899 as the largest psychiatric institution in the world. By the 1960s the number of patients had declined, and in December 1969 the hospital was divided into three centers, one of which was the Kirby Manhattan Psychiatric Center.
Belle Harbor is a small residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the borough. Belle Harbor commonly refers to the area from Beach 126th to Beach 141st Streets. [2] The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14. [3]
A third hospital on Wards Island, Manhattan State Hospital for the Insane, opened in 1871 [81] or 1872 [82] and was located near the middle of the island. [76] The hospital's first building was a three-story Gothic stone structure west of the Inebriate Asylum. [82] By the early 1870s, there were reports that asylum patients were being abused. [83]
More detailed descriptions are in the lists of hospitals in New York City's five boroughs and separate articles for many notable hospitals. The American Hospital Directory lists 261 active hospitals in New York State in 2022. 210 of these hospitals have staffed beds, with a total of 64,515 beds. The largest number of hospitals are in New York ...
State New York: City: New York City: ... Queens Community District 14 and its ZIP Code is ... area of Breezy Point/Belle Harbor/Rockaway Park/Broad Channel was 28,018 ...