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Harlem Hospital Center, branded as NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, is a 272-bed, public teaching hospital affiliated with Columbia University. [1] It is located at 506 Lenox Avenue in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City and was founded on April 18, 1887. [2] The hospital was established to provide healthcare to the citizens of the neighborhood.
Lenox Avenue – also named Malcolm X Boulevard; both names are officially recognized – is the primary north–south route through Harlem in the upper portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. This two-way street runs from Farmers' Gate at Central Park North (110th Street) to 147th Street.
New York City--the new Woman's Hospital, corner of Fiftieth Street and Fourth Avenue, Manhattan. (1876) New York Dispensary for Diseases of the Throat and Chest, (1840–1870). New York Infirmary, 127-129 Broad Street, Manhattan. See New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, in the section on hospitals in Manhattan above.
The neighborhood is named for the hill that "stood at what became 70th Street and Park Avenue." [3] The name "Lenox" is that of the immigrant Scottish merchant Robert Lenox (1759-1839), [11] who owned about 30 acres (120,000 m 2) of land "at the five-mile (8 km) stone", reaching from Fifth to Fourth (now Park) Avenues and from East 74th to 68th Streets. [12]
The route to White Plains Road, formerly the route to West Farms, became known as the 2, while the route to Lenox Avenue–145th Street became the 3. [18] The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced plans in 1956 to add fluorescent lights above the edges of the station's platforms. [19] In 1959, all 2 and 3 trains became express. [20]
The route to White Plains Road, formerly the route to West Farms, became known as the 2, while the route to Lenox Avenue–145th Street became the 3. [18] The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced plans in 1956 to add fluorescent lights above the edges of the station's platforms. [19] In 1959, all 2 and 3 trains became express. [20]
The car house was rebuilt as a bus garage by the New York City Omnibus Corporation in 1938 and 1939, [8] [9] and is still used by the New York City Transit Authority as the Mother Clara Hale Depot. By 1935, its last full year of operation, the line, operated by New York Railways, was known as the Lexington-Lenox Avenue Line. It ran from 22nd ...
The route to White Plains Road, formerly the route to West Farms, became known as the 2, while the route to Lenox Avenue–145th Street became the 3. [18] The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced plans in 1956 to add fluorescent lights above the edges of the station's platforms. [19] In 1959, all 2 and 3 trains became express. [20]