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Manhattan General Hospital is a defunct hospital that also used the name ''Manhattan Hospital'' and relocated more than once, using buildings that serially served more than one hospital, beginning in the 1920s.


History

Alfred A. Richman Alfred A. Richman (c. 1892 - December 8, 1984) was "an orthopedic surgeon and an honorary trustee of Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Beth Israel Hospital" who "founded Manhattan General Hospital in 1928 and was its executive director." Medical career ...
, who had opened a "private sanitarium at 50 West Seventy-fourth Street" in 1925, subsequently "founded Manhattan General Hospital." The name was transplanted to more than one location: "
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moved uptown, and ''Manhattan General Hospital'' moved in. And when Manhattan General went uptown" the building became still another medical facility: a drug-abuse treatment center. The sale of ''Manhattan Generals ''161 East Ninetieth Street'' 9-story building to Beth David Hospital facilitated purchasing an adjacent site to construct an 11-story building. ''Manhattan General'' merged with
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in 1964 and closed; the ''MGH'' buildings became co-op apartments.


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MGH's 1930s use of the 161 East 90th Street building
Defunct hospitals in Manhattan {{NewYork-hospital-stub, NYC=y