Bellevue Psychopathic Hospital

400 East 30th Street | also 401 East 29th Street | Kips Bay | built 1931

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

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1932
David Wechsler becomes chief psychologist at Bellevue's psychiatric hospital
Psychologist David Wechsler takes over as chief psychologist at Bellevue's psychiatric hospital, a post he holds until 1967. There he develops the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, IQ tests that by the 1960s displace the Stanford-Binet scale as the standard tools of psychological testing.
Source: Wikipedia
1933
May
Bellevue's troubled new psychiatric hospital finally admits patients
Designed by Charles B. Meyers in the Italian Renaissance style to match the older Bellevue buildings, the psychopathic hospital broke ground on June 18, 1930, but work dragged amid charges of corruption, and one official said the contractor collected what he could and left for Europe. The cost rose from $3 million to $4.3 million. It partly opened in May 1933 with 375 of its 600 beds, 100 of them for children.
Source: archives.nyc
1984
The city begins turning the psychiatric hospital into a homeless shelter
Beginning in 1984 the city moved psychiatric services out of the block-long building on First Avenue between 29th and 30th Streets and converted it into a homeless shelter and intake center. Around 2008 a proposal emerged to convert it into a hotel.
Source: archives.nyc

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