Comments on: The fight over naming Lenox Hill Hospital http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/ Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts Thu, 23 May 2013 06:34:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Where the “worthy poor” went for medical care « Ephemeral New York http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/#comment-32374 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:19:26 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=6214#comment-32374 [...] in 1827, this nonprofit was one of several dispensaries established in the city during the 19th century for the “worthy poor,” reports a New [...]

]]> By: When Brooklyn dedicated its German Hospital « Ephemeral New York http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/#comment-15962 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=6214#comment-15962 [...] what happened to German Hospital? Like Manhattan’s German Hospital, it underwent a name change after World War I, when anti-German sentiment was [...]

]]> By: mfrisk http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/#comment-10768 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:14:32 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=6214#comment-10768 Interesting. I was born at Lenox Hill Hospital, and my Mom died there 21 years later. I had a friend whose dad was a surgeon there, and we used to go swimming in the indoor pool down in the basement.

]]> By: Kellye http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/#comment-10039 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:48:08 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=6214#comment-10039 Thank you. I was born in Lenox Hill, so this is particularly interesting to me!

]]> By: petey http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/#comment-10034 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:22:58 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=6214#comment-10034 if only there were 36 hr days … :)

]]> By: petey http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/#comment-10033 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:21:04 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=6214#comment-10033 like ‘freedom fries’!
from sidney hook’s autobiography i learned about the antigerman and prowar atmosphere of the 1910s. virulent stuff, i had to keep it in mind during bush’s years to remind myself that things had been like that before and eventually recovered.

]]> By: Christopher http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/#comment-10015 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:45:05 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=6214#comment-10015 People forget the anti-German backlash story. It was pretty rough. My own grandmother’s family moved to Canada for awhile as my great-grandfather couldn’t find work in upstate New York at the time. They moved from Syracuse to Buffalo and then finally to Canada before settling near Detroit once things died down.

In SF there are random vestiges in naming from anti-German backlash… what are called German potato salad and German chocolate cake are called San Francisco potato salad and San Francisco chocolate cake.

]]> By: wildnewyork http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/#comment-9999 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:19:13 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=6214#comment-9999 You should start a blog on Yorkville history. It’s rich with stories and characters and the neighborhood is evaporating before our eyes.

]]> By: petey http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/the-fight-over-the-name-of-lenox-hill-hospital/#comment-9997 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:00:12 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=6214#comment-9997 thanks for that, i need to know all things yorkville but i hadn’t heard this story.

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