NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
506 6th Street | also 269 7th Avenue | Park Slope | built 1931
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- 1881
Brooklyn Methodist Hospital is founded as the first Methodist hospital in the country
The hospital was founded in 1881 and was the first Methodist hospital in the United States. Its original Romanesque Revival building was replaced in the 1930s.
“Founded in 1881, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital was the first Methodist hospital in the country.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1960
A boy thrown from a plane that crashed in Park Slope is treated at Methodist Hospital
After two airliners collided over Staten Island on December 16, 1960, one fell in Park Slope. Eleven-year-old Stephen Baltz, the only initial survivor, was thrown onto a snowbank and taken to Methodist Hospital, where he died of pneumonia the next day. A plaque in the hospital chapel marks the event and mentions the 65 cents found in his pocket.
“The only initial survivor, Stephen Baltz, an 11-year-old boy from Illinois, was thrown from that aircraft onto a snowbank.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
The hospital renews its tie with NewYork-Presbyterian and takes the system's name
Methodist Hospital joined the New York Hospital Care Network and Cornell's medical college in 1993, an affiliation that continued after the 1998 merger that created NewYork-Presbyterian. On December 16, 2016, the hospital renewed the tie and became NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, opening the way to more direct investment from the system for renovations and specialty care.
“On December 16, 2016, the hospital renewed the affiliation with NYP by changing its name to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.”
Source: Wikipedia
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