Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital

210A East 64th Street | also 208 East 64th Street | Lenox Hill | built 1930

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

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1906
November 1
The hospital moves into a seven-story building at 210 East 64th Street
On November 1, 1906, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital moved into a seven-story building at 210 East 64th Street. It served as the main inpatient facility for the next 76 years, and an annex on 63rd Street finished in 1917 raised the hospital's capacity by 30 percent. Three floors were added to the main building in 1925, and it still houses the outpatient department and administrative offices.
Source: Wikipedia
1967
July
Charles Kelman publishes his phacoemulsification report from the hospital's Cryo-Research Department
In July 1967 the American Journal of Ophthalmology published Charles Kelman's preliminary report on dissolving, emulsifying and aspirating a mature cataract through an incision of two to three millimeters. The paper gave its source as the hospital's Cryo-Research Department, and the instrument was developed together with the Cavitron Corporation. The first surgery took 76 minutes, and Kelman did his first cases in the hospital's Room Five, screened off from view.
Source: ophthalmologymanagement.com

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