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Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as Rockaway Beach Hospital and Peninsula General Hospital, was a community hospital in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, New York. PHC, founded in 1908, which opened on April 30, 1911, [1] was an affiliate of the MediSys Health Network at the time of its 2012 closure.
Neponsit Beach Hospital, also known as Neponsit Beach Hospital for Children, Neponsit Hospital, Neponsit Children's Hospital, [4] and various other names, was a former municipal tuberculosis sanatorium located adjacent to Jacob Riis Park and the Neponsit community on the western end of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, New York City.
Peninsula Hospital, 51-15 Beach Channel Drive, Far Rockaway, Queens. Opened as Rockaway Beach Hospital at 152 Beach 85th Street in Far Rockaway, Queens, on April 30, 1911, renamed Peninsula Hospital and moved to 51-15 Beach Channel Drive on June 12, 1960, and closed in April 2012. Since 2014, an extended care and rehabilitation center. [59] [60 ...
In 1987 the 300-bed hospital installed a dairy kosher kitchen. [10] Peninsula Hospital, which in 2006 a state agency wanted St. Johns to absorb, [11] closed in 2012. This closing left St. John's, whose emergency room "was last renovated in the 1960s" [12] as the only hospital in Far Rockaway.
Emil Robert Lucev (September 27, 1933 – June 7, 2018) was an American journalist and historian of Far Rockaway.His work includes study of the early amusement parks created by LaMarcus Adna Thompson and George C. Tilyou, the restoration and history of the Cornell Cemetery, and other features of The Rockaways, and his newspaper articles in The Wave of Long Island.
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Rockaway Beach in the 1880s, with new railroad and resort hotel. What is now Rockaway Beach was formerly two different hamlets, Holland and Hammels. In 1857, Michael P. Holland had purchased land and named the area after himself. Soon afterward, Louis Hammel, an immigrant from Germany, bought a tract of land just east of Holland.