page_title: New York Hospital
section_title: 1800s expansion
hierarchical_section_title: New York Hospital / History / 1800s expansion
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing New York Hospital on Broadway in between Duane and Worth Streets, with Church street to the rear.
context_page_description: New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center previously known as New York Hospital, or Old New York Hospital or City Hospital, was founded in 1771 with a charter from King George III, and is the second oldest hospital in Manhattan, New York City, and the third oldest in the United States. Since 1912 New York Hospital has been the main teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine. It was originally located on Broadway between Duane Street and Anthony Street, and moved to its current location in New York City's Upper East Side in 1932. In 1998 it merged with Presbyterian Hospital to form NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.
context_section_description: After some years of experience with the mentally ill and the particular challenges of their treatment, the Board of Governors decided to construct an additional building which would specialize in their care.  After receiving financial assistance from the Legislature of New York State, they erected "a substantial and spacious stone edifice on the grounds of the hospital in the city, within the same enclosure, and but a few rods distant from the original building. It was finished and opened on the 15 July 1808. On the same day, 19 patients were removed to it from wards in  other buildings and forty-eight were admitted. The new department was called the Lunatic Asylum. In June, 1821, patients were transferred to the new Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane."
  In 1821, the hospital opened the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum on Broadway and West 116th Street in Morningside Heights.  Due to real estate pressures, it moved to White Plains, New York in 1891, where it eventually became the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, now known as "New York-Presbyterian/Westchester".  The Morningside Heights site became part of Columbia University.
  New York Hospital outgrew its original building by the 1870s, and moved to a new building between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and West 15th and 16th Streets, which opened in 1877. The original facility was maintained as a 'house of relief', which moved to Hudson Street in 1884.
caption: Map showing New York Hospital on Broadway in between Duane and Worth Streets, with Church street to the rear.
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