Prospect Hospital

730 Kelly Street | also 728 Kelly Street | Longwood | built 1962

Open on the map3 entries

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1962

   William Iser builds the new Prospect Hospital on Kelly Street to a design by Theodore Soontop

   Read more

   Prospect Hospital began in 1919 as a 35-bed hospital housed in two Kelly Street homes. Between 1962 and 1965 builder William Iser replaced it with a seven-story, 175-bed brick hospital designed by Theodore Soontop, spread over five lots, with a four-story wing on the first hospital's site. The landmarks commission's report noted that only an interior elevator from the old houses survived, built into the new main building, whose plain white walls are pierced by paired louvered windows.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1985

   Prospect Hospital shuts abruptly at 730 Kelly Street, prompting a state inquiry

   Dr. Jacob B. Freedman, who was born in the area, built the 175-bed private hospital at 730 Kelly Street, and it opened in 1963; its owner, Prospect, also held about 15 brownstones used for drug and alcohol treatment and other social programs. The hospital closed abruptly in 1985, and The New York Times reported that the state planned an inquiry. A group of doctors later tried to reopen it, but the effort failed.

   “…opened at 730 Kelly Street in 1963 and closed in 1985…”

   Source: Wikipedia

3. 1993

   The former hospital, now the Prospect Family Inn, runs a round-the-clock nursery for families in crisis

   After the hospital closed, the building was bought for use as a "family inn" for homeless families, a term used in place of "homeless shelter" or "welfare hotel," and was renamed the Prospect Family Inn. It also held the Prospect Family Nursery, a two-room program open around the clock where parents in crisis could leave children aged 2 months to 5 years for up to 72 hours. The New York Times wrote about the nursery in 1993.

   Source: Wikipedia

Nearby

• 957 East 156th Street1 entry
• 959 East 156th Street1 entry
• 961 East 156th Street1 entry
• 734 Kelly Street1 entry
• 949 East 156th Street2 entries
• 963 East 156th Street1 entry

All 147 buildings with stories in Longwood