Manhattan General Hospital
Manhattan General Hospital was a defunct hospital in Manhattan, New York. It began in the 1920s as a private sanitarium opened by Alfred A. Richman in 1925 and grew into Manhattan General Hospital. Over the years it moved to several locations, including a site at Second Avenue and 18th Street, and later to 161 East 90th Street on the Upper East Side.
The building at 161 East 90th Street had previously housed Pan American Hospital, which aimed to serve Latin American people with Spanish and Portuguese-speaking staff. Pan American Hospital opened in the late 1920s but ran into legal and financial trouble and closed in 1930. Manhattan General then occupied the 161 East 90th Street building until 1934, when Beth David Hospital bought the site and built an additional 11-story building nearby.
Beth David Hospital traces its roots to the Yorkville Dispensary for Women and Children, founded in 1886. Beth David moved locations a few times and, after purchasing the East 90th Street site in 1934, stayed there until 1957. It then moved to 321 East 42nd Street and was renamed Grand Central Hospital in 1959, before closing by mid-1963.
In 1964, Manhattan General Hospital merged with Mount Sinai Beth Israel and closed. The former Manhattan General buildings on East 90th Street were converted into cooperative apartments and are now part of the residential neighborhood.
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