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Weill Cornell Medical Center, previously known as New York Hospital or Old New York Hospital or City Hospital, is a research hospital in New York City. It is part of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the teaching hospital for Cornell University.
Weill Cornell Medical Center campus in 2021
Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, c. 1830
1893 illustration of the hospital's West 15th Street facade, near Fifth Avenue
Weill Cornell Medical Center (left) and the Hospital for Special Surgery (right), 2006
Presbyterian Hospital was a New York City hospital. It was founded in 1868 and began operations in 1872. It was originally located between East 70th Street and 71st Streets and Madison and Park Avenue. The hospital expanded continuously throughout the late 19th century, adding an outpatient dispensary in 1888, a school of nursing in 1892, and additional beds and services in 1892, 1893, 1904 and 1912.
The original Presbyterian Hospital located Madison Avenue and East 70th Street
The main entrance to Presbyterian Hospital in the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center is now the adult emergency services entrance of the Columbia University campus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital