Tag: Harlem Hospital

  • New York City’s Public Health Laboratory Rises

    New York City’s Public Health Laboratory Rises

    On 137th Street, behind Harlem Hospital, NYC’s new Public Health Laboratory Rises. Scenes from Marcus Garvey Park on Friday

  • Lasik?  That’s from Harlem

    Lasik? That’s from Harlem

    The procedure known as Lasik Eye Surgery was developed and patented by the ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath, who was born in Harlem in 1942. Bath was the first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose and was also the founder of the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in…

  • CB11 Meeting Tomorrow at 6 PM

    CB11 Meeting Tomorrow at 6 PM

    Please register for CB11’s Health and Human Services meeting on Monday, March 7th here: https://www.cb11m.org/pmcalendar/ The committee will be discussing Community Board 11’s resolution requesting a moratorium on the siting of any new drug rehabilitation, chemical dependency, or treatment centers within Community District 11 that they crafted last year, and proposing an extension before this…

  • Harlem Hospital Nursing Yearbook 1959

    Harlem Hospital Nursing Yearbook 1959

    The Harlem Hospital School of Nursing closed in 1977 and the site is about to become a new public health lab: https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/harlem-gets-first-look-new-400m-public-health-lab A 1959 yearbook of the nursing school is currently for sale: https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM55457/african-american-nursing/city-of-new-york-harlem-hospital-h-h-s-n-1959-cover-title and is described as: Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing’s Class of 1959. This copy…

  • NYC Public Health Laboratory Coming to Harlem

    NYC Public Health Laboratory Coming to Harlem

    The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is proposing moving their existing facility from 455 1st Ave (btw 27th & 28th, across from Bellevue Hospital) to the Harlem Hospital Campus where they propose to construct a new 10-story approx. 234,742 gsf building to be used as the NYC Public Health Laboratory.A community forum to discuss…

  • Harlem Hospital

    While we are all familiar with the Harlem Hospital’s location at Malcolm X Blvd. and 135th. Street, the original Harlem Hospital was located at 120th Street and the East River in 1887 – currently the location of Public School 202. Initially, the hospital served as a holding area for patients to be transferred to Randalls and Wards Islands and Bellevue…

  • Greater Harlem Coalition Meeting Tonight

    Join the Greater Harlem Coalition meeting tonight to learn more about Mount Sinai’s plans for new security at its Park/125th Street methadone programs and its plans for their new facility being built on West 124th Street. Register here for the 7:00 PM Harlem Town-Hall The Crown While I’m not watching The Crown on Netflix, the…