The Brooklyn Hospital Center

121 Dekalb Avenue | also 155 Ashland Place, 117 Dekalb Avenue | Fort Greene | built 1982

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1845

    May

    A public meeting leads to the founding of Brooklyn City Hospital

    The hospital whose campus includes 121 DeKalb Avenue was founded in May 1845 as Brooklyn City Hospital, after a public meeting called by Mayor Smith of the then-separate City of Brooklyn. Collection meetings were held to raise money to keep it going, and patients were first admitted in 1847. As Brooklyn's population swelled, the hospital grew, and around the turn of the twentieth century it was operating several buildings. It became The Brooklyn Hospital in 1883.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1925

    Two hospital residents introduce a unit history system for patient records

    Two residents at The Brooklyn Hospital, William H. Field and Edwin P. Maynard Jr., introduced a unit history system in 1925 for keeping patient records. The aim was a permanent record for patients that was easy to retrieve.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1982

    The hospital merges with Caledonian Hospital and becomes Brooklyn Caledonian

    In 1982 the hospital merged with Caledonian Hospital, and the combined institution was called Brooklyn Caledonian Hospital. It kept both locations until the Caledonian site closed in 2003. In 1990 the name changed to The Brooklyn Hospital Center.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2014

    The hospital leaves NewYork-Presbyterian and affiliates with Mount Sinai

    The Brooklyn Hospital Center broke off its affiliation with the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, which it had joined in 1998, and affiliated with the Mount Sinai Health System instead. The change came in September 2014. The hospital, a 464-bed teaching hospital, also trains about 250 residents and fellows.

    Source: Wikipedia

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