PS 48 William G. Wilcox

1050 Targee Street | Grasmere | built 2012

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1963
Sunnyside Hospital moves to Targee Street after the expressway takes its first home
This lot was earlier the home of a hospital. Founded in 1940 as Sunnyside Hospital on Little Clove Road, it lost its original building to the Staten Island Expressway, part of Interstate 278. In 1962-63 it moved to 1050 Targee Street in Concord, where it later operated as the for-profit Doctors' Hospital of Staten Island.
Source: Wikipedia
2003
Doctors' Hospital closes after merging with Staten Island University Hospital
The earlier building on this lot, the 71-bed Doctors' Hospital, shut down in 2003 following its merger with Staten Island University Hospital. The hospital building was afterward torn down, clearing the land at 1050 Targee Street for a new public school.
“The 71-bed hospital was closed in 2003 after a merger with Staten Island University Hospital. The building was demolished…”
Source: Wikipedia
2013
September
Public School 48 opens on the site of the demolished Doctors' Hospital
Public School 48 opened at 1050 Targee Street in September 2013, a decade after Doctors' Hospital closed. The school stands on the ground where the demolished hospital building had been.
“The building was demolished and Public School 48 opened on the location in September 2013.”
Source: Wikipedia

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