Wyckoff Heights Medical Center

374 Stockholm Street | Bushwick | built 1931

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1887
German immigrants organize a hospital society to build a hospital for Brooklyn's German community
The Plattdeutscher Volksfest-Verein organized the German Hospital Society of Brooklyn in 1887. Its purpose was to raise money, buy land and build a hospital for the borough's large German immigrant population. The effort led to the hospital that became Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.
“In 1887 the German Hospital Society of Brooklyn was organized by the Plattdeutscher Volksfest-Verein for the purpose of raising funds, purchasing land, and constructing a hospital…”
Source: Wikipedia
1899
German Hospital of Brooklyn opens, and is later renamed Wyckoff Heights Hospital
The hospital opened in 1899 under the name German Hospital of Brooklyn. After World War I it was renamed Wyckoff Heights Hospital because of anti-German sentiment, and it later became Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. It is now a 350-bed teaching hospital and one of only ten stand-alone hospitals left in New York City.
Source: Wikipedia

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