Metropolitan Hospital Center
1900 2nd Avenue | also 1901 1st Avenue, 1880 2nd Avenue | East Harlem | built 1967
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- 1955
Metropolitan Hospital moves into new buildings on its East Harlem campus
In 1955 the hospital moves into two newly constructed buildings at its present site, between First and Second Avenues and East 97th and 99th Streets. It had moved to Blackwell's Island in 1894 and was founded in 1875 as a homeopathic hospital on Wards Island. It has been affiliated with New York Medical College since its founding, the oldest partnership of its kind in the United States.
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- 1966
A 14-story Mental Health Building is added to the campus
In 1966 the hospital adds its Mental Health Building, an adjoining 14-story pavilion that houses its psychiatric services.
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- 1969
Frederick Wiseman films his documentary Hospital in the emergency room
Frederick Wiseman shoots his documentary Hospital in the hospital's emergency room in 1969, and it wins two Emmy Awards. In 1971 the satirical comedy The Hospital, starring George C. Scott, is filmed in a psychiatric wing that is nearly finished.
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- 1971
The feature film The Hospital, with George C. Scott, is shot in a psychiatric wing still being finished
The satirical black comedy The Hospital, starring George C. Scott, was filmed here in 1971, using a psychiatric wing that was close to completion. It came two years after Frederick Wiseman had shot his own film, Hospital, in the emergency room of the same medical center.
“…the absurdist satirical black comedy film The Hospital, starring George C. Scott, was filmed in a psychiatric wing which was nearing completion…”
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