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Adelphi Hospital
Defunct Brooklyn hospital From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adelphi Hospital was a 146-bed voluntary hospital that opened in 1929 at 50 Green Avenue and closed in 1974. It "served the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn."[1][2][3] The hospital was in "a seven-story, fireproof building" and was located at "the corner of Greene Ave and Adelphi St."[4][5]
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History
For five years, covering three contracts,[1] the hospital and a union for nonprofessional employees went through a strike [6][7] about which The New York Times used the word tinderbox.[8] The situation "emptied most beds in the hospital and forced many strikers to seek welfare assistance."[9]
The Brooklyn Public Library archive noted that
- an anonymous philanthropist funded giving $5 "to every baby born in Adelphi Hospital."[10]
- the hospital remodeled in 1941, adding "additional operating rooms, new laboratories" and a solarium.[5]
The hospital's 54 Green Avenue property housed its Adelphi Mental Health Clinic. In 1978 the building was landmarked and subsequently was listed on city records as an office building.[11]
After the hospital closed, part of it served as a medical center run by Josephine English, "the first African-American licensed obstetrician/gynecologist in New York State."[12]
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