page_title: Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking at the former Triboro Hospital at Queens Hospital Center, from Parsons Boulevard and the Grand Central Parkway in Hillcrest, Queens. The hospital towers over the rest of the neighborhood. Also note the "Grand Central Laundromat", likely a former Clean Rite location.
context_page_description: Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis or Triboro Tuberculosis Hospital, later simply Triboro Hospital and now known as "Building T" or the "T Building", is a former municipal tuberculosis sanatorium and later a general hospital located on the campus of Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. Completed in 1941, it was merged with the adjacent Queens General Hospital to form Queens Hospital Center in the 1950s, and converted into a general hospital by the 1970s. Now primarily used for administrative purposes, several plans have been proposed to reuse the site, or to preserve the building as a historic landmark. On January 31, 2019 the hospital was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_section_description: Triboro Hospital is located the west end of the Queens Hospital Center campus on Parsons Boulevard between 82nd Drive and Goethals Avenue. It is located at the top of a hill, part of the terminal moraine that runs west-to-east across Long Island. The building was designed by architect John Russell Pope, and later by the Eggers & Higgins firm after Pope's death, in Art Moderne-style. New York City Commissioner of Hospitals Dr. Sigismund Goldwater and Department of Public Works architect Isadore Rosenfield supervised the design. The hospital served Queens, as well as Brooklyn and the Bronx.
  The building is a total of eleven stories high, with nine floors for patients and two additional mechanical floors. The building was sited at an angle to the north-south grid, with its main entrance facing southwest towards the intersection of Parsons and 82nd Drive. The orientation allowed afternoon sunlight to hit the front of the building. It features one main wing facing southwest, with shorter wings at each end angled inward to fit the property. The hospital was built with a patient capacity of over 500 with six-bed hospital wards. It was designed with numerous windows and glass interior walls, glass-encolsed sunrooms or solariums, and cantilever balconies, all to maximize natural light entering the facility and exposure of patients to the sun. Each floor of the hospital had three sunrooms. Its basement was built with locker, dining, and storage facilities, along with a tunnel connecting to the then-Queens General Hospital buildings. Triboro Hospital's outer design has a "symmetrical facade and a minium of ornamentation," utilizing gray brick and limestone trim. It was built with four elevators installed by the Otis Elevator Company.
  The T Building is currently used by Queens Hospital Center for administrative offices, storage, and clinic and psychiatric services. Several clinics were relocated to "The Pavilion" of QHC when it opened in 2007. More services have been relocated from the T Building since then, due to the deteriorating condition of the building.
caption: Triboro Hospital overlooking the surrounding neighborhood
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