The scaffolding is gone and the construction vehicles have departed.
Now, the gleaming new condos (collectively called Greenwich Lane and fetching multimillion dollar prices) carved out of the former St. Vincent’s Medical Center on West 12th Street and Seventh Avenue are ready for occupancy.
Yet amid the landscaped courtyard, new bronze accents, and the cool marble lobby, a few lingering bits of the old Catholic hospital remain.
Take this nurse, carved into the facade above a doorway. Paying homage to the thousands of nurses who tended to St. Vincent’s patients from its opening in 1849 to its demise in 2010, she continues to look out solemnly for passersby on the West 12th Street side.
With St. Vincent’s gone, this faded subway sign in the 14th Street IRT station is even more of a relic.
Tags: faces carved in NYC buildings, New York street, old subway signs NYC St. Vincents, St. Vincent's Hospital Greenwich Village, West 12th Street NYC, What remains of St. Vincent's Hospital
Ephemeral New York 
September 9, 2016 at 2:07 pm |
NY needed a hospital more than another perch for the super rich.
September 9, 2016 at 7:20 pm |
St Vincent’s saved several friend’s lives over the years…Greenwich village NEEDS a Hospital.. We already have enough Condos!
September 26, 2017 at 2:02 am |
Reblogged this on Tigan, rom. tot OM and commented:
Cel mai frumos spital din New York devine un come de apatamente de lux …
October 18, 2017 at 8:26 pm |
I worked at SVH for several years in the 60s and loved every minute of it. I was Asst. Dir. of PR and in that capacity knew every department and so many physicians, nurses, students, interns, office, maintenance, housekeeping, dietary. Beautiful, beautiful people. What an enormous loss. And imagining the people who now live in its sacred halls disturbs me. This hospital was meant to care for the needy as well as the rich. Everyone called it their hospital.
November 23, 2017 at 10:51 pm |
Is this Katharine Sanborn, first Director of the school of nursing?
June 18, 2018 at 5:51 am |
[…] St. Vincent’s in Greenwich Village, the former French Hospital on West 30th Street, and a turn of the century hospital devoted to […]
June 18, 2018 at 6:44 am |
[…] St. Vincent’s in Greenwich Village, the former French Hospital on West 30th Street, and a turn of the century hospital devoted to […]
June 18, 2018 at 8:36 am |
[…] St. Vincent’s in Greenwich Village, the former French Hospital on West 30th Street, and a turn of the century hospital devoted to […]
June 18, 2018 at 9:55 am |
[…] St. Vincent’s in Greenwich Village, the former French Hospital on West 30th Street, and a turn of the century hospital devoted to […]
July 18, 2021 at 11:24 pm |
[…] York developers have made apartment buildings out of former hospitals, police stations, schools, and churches. Now, a library branch has undergone the transformation to […]
November 29, 2021 at 1:46 am |
[…] Now the site of a small park, St. Vincent’s Triangle is across the street from the former St. Vincent’s Hospital—which in 1984 established the first AIDS ward in New York City, according to NYC […]
April 11, 2022 at 4:56 am |
[…] was brought to St. Vincent’s Hospital along with more than 100 others in various states of health. Roth was suffering from “shock […]