New York Hospital House of Relief

67 Hudson Street | Tribeca | built 1894

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  1. 1894

    November 6

    New York Hospital opens a downtown emergency hospital on Hudson Street

    New York Hospital moved uptown in 1869, leaving lower Manhattan without a hospital, and began running an emergency station on Chambers Street in 1875. Its replacement, the House of Relief at 67 Hudson Street, was designed by the firm of Cady, Berg & See and cost $300,000. The Chambers Street building treated its last patient on the night of November 6, 1894. The first patient at Hudson Street was a newsboy, Dominick Zizto, with a broken wrist.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1894

    July 29

    The new hospital includes a sunstroke ward with an overhead track and cold sprays

    As the building neared completion, The Sun described its up-to-date features. Heat-stricken patients were to be moved on a net hung from an overhead track to a cold bath or spray, then taken to a rooftop enclosure open to the breeze. The laundry used electric irons, heating and ventilation could change the air in a room within minutes, and a private ward on the third floor was set aside for distinguished patients.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1911

    July

    Ambulances race out of the hospital during a deadly heat wave

    A heat wave in early July 1911 killed 72 people in four days, with temperatures lingering above 100 degrees. On July 5 the ambulances answered twice as many calls as on any earlier day, and doctors here treated people who had collapsed in the street, among them a laborer working in an excavation at Canal Street. The horse-drawn ambulances left from a stable and laundry annex built behind the hospital in 1907.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1913

    May 10

    Chuck Connors, known as the 'Mayor of Chinatown,' is brought here and dies

    Charles 'Chuck' Connors guided uptown visitors through the Bowery and Chinatown and was credited with inventing its slang. On May 10, 1913, ill with pneumonia at his Doyer Street rooms, he whispered that if he was dying, he wanted it to happen in Chinatown. A doctor was summoned from the House of Relief, and Connors was taken to the hospital but lived only a few hours. The New York Times reported that Chinese merchants were arranging his funeral.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1918

    March 14

    The federal government takes over the hospital for returning military patients

    In March 1918, during World War I, the federal government took over the Hudson Street hospital for injured soldiers and sailors brought home, and ambulance service ended. The hospital stopped admitting civilians on May 1, 1918. In 1919 the Red Cross appealed to car owners to take wounded soldiers on afternoon outings. The building was called the United States Marine Hospital in the 1920s and 1930s, became medical offices in 1975 and was converted to residences about a decade later.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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