Goldwater Hospital, on the south side of Roosevelt Island near the Queensboro Bridge, opened in 1939 and was named for Dr. Sigismund Schulz Goldwater, health commissioner under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (and not Republican Senator and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, as some may believe). The Goldwater Hospital was a monument to the golden years of public […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2017/05/goldwater-hospital-roosevelt-island-2002/
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