Manhattan Valley
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Manhattan Valley is a neighborhood in the northern part of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th
The former New York Cancer Hospital (now a condominium), at Central Park West and 106th St.
Manhattan Valley: buildings on Central Park West from 100th-102nd Streets, seen from Central Park
Church of the Ascension, at 107th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway
The American Youth Hostels building at Amsterdam and 103rd, formerly the Association Residence Nursing Home, is one of architect Richard Morris Hunt's few surviving projects in New York City.
New York Cancer Hospital
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The New York Cancer Hospital on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City was a cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884. The building was located at 455 Central Park West betwe
Manhattan Valley
…Females, and the Towers Nursing Home constructed as a cancer ward by John Jacob Astor III in 1884. Also located in Manhattan Valley at the time was the New York Cancer Hospital, which was built in 1887 at 455 Central Park West. These, together with the Lion Brewery, gave the area its earliest landmarks. The neighborhood began…
455 Central Park West
The concept in the 1880s was that germs and dirt in room corners were harboring ground for diseases, prompting the design of its circular wards towers.
The hospital in 1893
The building as seen from the east in 2015