NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital

5141 Broadway | Inwood Hill Park | built 1988

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1988

    July 21

    Presbyterian Hospital's Allen Pavilion admits its first patients

    Presbyterian Hospital built the Allen Pavilion, now Allen Hospital, as a community hospital for northern Manhattan in Inwood. The building topped out on September 19, 1986, its cornerstone was laid on October 20, 1987, and it admitted its first patients on July 21, 1988.

    Source: library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu

  2. 2020

    April

    A COVID-19 field hospital opens next door to Allen Hospital

    In April 2020 NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia turned the heated sports dome at the adjacent Baker Athletics Complex into the Ryan Larkin Field Hospital, able to treat up to 280 patients with mild COVID-19. It was staffed largely by military veterans, including physicians, nurses and Special Operations medics, and named for a Navy SEAL who died in 2017.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

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