NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital
40 Beekman Street | also 83 Gold Street, 170 William Street, 52 Beekman Street | Financial District | built 1968
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- 1975
The hospital treats victims of the Fraunces Tavern bombing
In 1975 the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern, a meeting place for financiers and government officials for more than 150 years. Four people were killed and about 50 were wounded, and many of the injured came to the emergency department of what was then Beekman Downtown Hospital for life-saving care.
Source: downtownhospital.org
- 1981
The New York Infirmary moves to 170 William Street after merging with Beekman Downtown Hospital
The New York Infirmary began in 1853 as a dispensary founded by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first licensed woman physician in the United States. It merged with Beekman Downtown Hospital in 1979, and in 1981 it relocated from Stuyvesant Square to 170 William Street in Lower Manhattan, the hospital's present site.
Source: downtownhospital.org
- 1993
The hospital receives hundreds of injured after the World Trade Center bombing
Within minutes of the 1993 explosion at the World Trade Center towers, New York Downtown Hospital began receiving hundreds of injured victims. The blast killed six people, injured more than 1,000, and forced more than 50,000 people to evacuate.
Source: downtownhospital.org
- 2001
The hospital treats about 1,500 people injured in the September 11 attacks
On September 11, 2001, the hospital, then known as NYU Downtown Hospital, treated about 1,500 victims of the attacks on the nearby World Trade Center. Afterward the hospital built a new decontamination unit as part of the $25 million Lehman Brothers Emergency Room, introduced in 2006. The old unit could handle about 20 patients an hour, while the new one treats 500 to 1,000.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2006
The hospital opens a decontamination unit built after September 11 as part of the Lehman Brothers Emergency Room
In 2006 the hospital opened a new decontamination unit as part of a $25 million emergency room named for Lehman Brothers. The project began after the September 11 attacks, when the hospital treated about 1,500 victims. The old unit could process roughly 20 patients an hour; the new one can handle 500 to 1,000. Its design follows a unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2013
New York Downtown Hospital merges fully with NewYork-Presbyterian and takes its present name
In 2013 the hospital merged fully with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, which gave it the name New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital. Before that it had been renamed New York Downtown Hospital in 1991, became NYU Downtown Hospital in 1997 after an affiliation with NYU Medical Center, and went back to the Downtown name in 2005 when that tie ended.
Source: Wikipedia
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