R & S Building
492 1st Avenue | also 462 1st Avenue | Kips Bay | built 1910
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- 1912
The city morgue moves into Bellevue's new pathology building
McKim, Mead & White designed this building for Bellevue in 1903 to hold the hospital's pathology department and a dormitory for male staff; it was completed in 1912. The city morgue moved in that year. The Office of Chief Medical Examiner, created on January 1, 1918, to replace the office of Coroner, worked here until 1961, when it moved to a new building at First Avenue and East 30th Street.
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- 1918
New York creates its medical examiner's office at the R & S Building
New York City creates the position of chief medical examiner in 1918, and the new Office of Chief Medical Examiner sets up operations in the R & S Building's morgue and laboratories. The office remains there until 1961, handling autopsies for Manhattan and select cases from the other boroughs while developing early techniques for identifying bloodstains in criminal trials.
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- 2001
The long-vacant building reopens as the city's children's intake center
After serving as a laboratory for Bellevue and New York University until the late 1970s, the building stood empty for about two decades. A $67 million renovation turned it into an emergency children's shelter, which opened on June 1, 2001. On November 7, 2013, it was rededicated as the Nicholas Scoppetta Children's Center, the intake point for children entering foster care.
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- 2013
The children's center is renamed for former ACS commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta
The R & S Building's foster-care intake center is rededicated as the Nicholas Scoppetta Children's Center, honoring Nicholas Scoppetta, who led the effort to create it while serving as the Administration for Children's Services' first commissioner. The rededication comes twelve years after the center first opened inside the building.
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