Knickerbocker Hospital

The Knickerbocker Hospital was a 228-bed hospital in New York City, located at 70 Convent Avenue, corner of West 131st Street in Harlem, serving primarily poor and immigrant patients.





== History ==

Founded in 1862 as the Manhattan Dispensary, it served as a temporary American Civil War tent facility for returning Union Army invalidsDated/offense?. In 1885, the New York Times praised its rebirth as the fully equipped Manhattan Hospital, "the only general hospital north of Ninety-ninth street." The hospital assumed the city's largest ambulance district for many decades and worked at the forefront of treatments for polio, alcoholism, and gynecological care.

Manhattan Hospital's successive names were:



the J. Hood Wright Memorial Hospital after James Hood Wright in 1895,

the Knickerbocker Hospital in 1913,

and finally, in 1974, as the Arthur C. Logan Memorial Hospital after Arthur C. Logan only a few years before it closed in 1979.

The 1914 Directory of Social and Health Agencies listed the hospital as such:



Knickerbocker Hospital (incorp. 1862 as the ManHattan Dispensary; Aug. 1895, title changed to J. Hood Wright Memorial; title again changed to present name, June, 1913, opened 1884), Amsterdam Ave. and 131st St. Gives free medical and surgical treatment to the worthy sick poor of New York City. Incurable and contagious diseases and alcoholic, maternity and insane patients not admitted.