James J. Peters VA Medical Center
130 West Kingsbridge Road | also 110 West Kingsbridge Road | University Heights | built 1905
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1777
British troops hold Fort Number 6 on the ground where the hospital now stands
During the Revolutionary War the British occupied a post known as Fort Number 6 on this site from 1777 to 1779. Nathaniel Platt Bailey owned the land as part of his estate in the 1800s, and the Sisters of Charity of New York later ran the Bronx Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum here before the hospital came.
“During the American Revolutionary War, the site of the medical center was the location of British '"Fort Number 6" (1777–1779).”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1922
United States Veterans' Hospital No. 81 opens on West Kingsbridge Road
The federal government opened the hospital on April 15, 1922, as United States Veterans' Hospital No. 81, on land the Sisters of Charity had used for an orphan asylum. It is now a Department of Veterans Affairs complex and headquarters of the VA's New York/New Jersey health care network.
“The hospital opened as United States Veterans' Hospital no. 81 on April 15, 1922.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1968
Ron Kovic is a patient in the run-down Bronx veterans hospital
Ron Kovic, later the author of Born on the Fourth of July, was treated here in 1968 and described the hospital's conditions as deplorable. By the 1970s the original building had decayed enough to draw a Life magazine article, and the hospital was rebuilt in the late 1970s.
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- 1977
Rosalyn Yalow wins the Nobel Prize for radioimmunoassay work done at the hospital
Starting in the 1950s, Solomon Berson and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow studied radioimmunoassay at the Bronx veterans hospital, work that earned Yalow the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Berson had died in 1972 and could not share it. Other researchers here included Ludwik Gross, who began work at the hospital in 1944 and became director of its Cancer Research Division, and James Cimino and Michael J. Brescia, who developed the Cimino-Brescia fistula in 1966.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2002
The Bronx Veterans hospital is renamed for patient and advocate James J. Peters
In 2002 the hospital took the name of James J. Peters, an Army veteran who had been a patient here. Peters founded several groups for people with spinal cord injuries, among them the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association, now the United Spinal Association, whose efforts led to the hospital's Spinal Cord Damage Research Center.
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