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In 1883, the Long Island Rail Road opened its Atlantic Branch to Brooklyn, making Jamaica a suburb of New York City. The residents held a fundraiser in 1883 and collected $179.40 (equivalent to $5,866 in 2023). This money was saved until the Jamaica Hospital was opened in 1891 near what is now Jamaica Avenue and 169th Street.
The Floating Hospital, 41-40 27th Street, Long Island City, Queens. Founded in 1872 or 1873. [12] Flushing Hospital Medical Center, 4500 Parsons Boulevard, Flushing, Queens. Founded as Flushing Hospital in 1884, opened in 1888. [13] Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Van Wyck Expressway at 89th Avenue, Jamaica, Queens. Opened at Fulton (now ...
[98] [99] Beginning in fall 1954, Queens Hospital Center and Queens College began an experimental two-year nursing program free of tuition, funded by a $50,000 grant from the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York (now the City University of New York). [100] [101] This program would evolve into the Queens Hospital Center School of ...
Brooklyn Hebrew Maternity Hospital, 1395 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn [62] [63] Its prior name was Maternity Hospital of Brownsville and East New York. [62] Brooklyn Women's Hospital August 1, 1930 through 1960s. Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, Kingston Avenue and St. John's Place, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Homeopathic Hospital, 105-111 Cumberland Street ...
Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg to the northwest; East New York and the cemeteries of Highland Park to the southeast; and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south and southwest.
The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that comprise New York City. They are the Bronx , Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queens , and Staten Island . Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York : The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is ...
Original north-eastern terminus was the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center at Morris Park Avenue. Service was extended to its current terminus in February 1984. Originally ran with the Bx31 via Eastchester Road. Service was later rerouted to serve the New York City Children's Center Bronx Campus at Waters Place in September 1990.
[4] Hillcrest, a private hospital, [5] was then sold to an investor, who leased it to Osteopathic Hospital and Clinic. Osteopathic previously had acquired another hospital [6] to which they subsequently relocated, and the 5-story building [7] became St. Joseph's Hospital in 1985. [3] GHI [8] owned Hillcrest during the Osteopathic period. [9] [10]