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149-151 East 67th Street Building
This very handsome neo-Italian Renaissance style building at 149-151 East 67th Street was built in 1889-90 to serve as a dispensary for Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital originally faced the dispensary from its site on the south side of East 67th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. The dignified and elegant architectural expression of the clinic — itself very much a product of late 19th-century social ideals — is an important element in the group of stylistically diverse monumental civic and institutional buildings on this East Side block.
Mount Sinai Hospital, the oldest Jewish hospital in the city, was founded as the Jews’ Hospital in 1852 by a group of eight prominent Jewish citizens led by Sampson Simson, best known as Aaron Burr’s confidential secretary. Established as a sectarian hospital "to afford surgical and medical aid, comfort, and protection in sickness to deserving and needy Israelites," it also cared for non-Jews in case of emergency. Beginning with the influx of wounded soldiers from the Civil War and injuries connected with the 1863 Draft Riots in New York City, the hospital began operating as a non-sectarian institution, changing its name to Mount Sinai Hospital in 1866.
The name evoked the Jewish origins of the hospital but removed the connotation of sectarianism that hindered the hospital in its early attempts to solicit public funds and private contributions. The hospital first occupied a site on West 28th Street, but as the city’s growth encroached on what had once been open space surrounding the building, a new site was thought desirable. Repeatedly in the 19th century American hospitals sought open land which was believed to provide a healthier atmosphere, although by the end of the century this was recognized as impossible for urban hospitals.
An explosion of a steam boiler within 100 feet of the hospital in 1867 gave the impetus for a move uptown to a more peaceful site. In 1867 the board of the hospital began looking at a site on Park Avenue at 65th Street, an area which was rapidly becoming a center for hospitals and charitable homes. The Presbyterian Hospital already occupied a site at 70th and Park Avenue, and in 1870 the City gave land at Park and 67th Street to the Hahneman Hospital.
In 1868 the city granted Mount Sinai Hospital twelve lots on East 67th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. A new hospital was erected there from the designs of Griffith Thomas between 1870 and 1872. French Second Empire in style, the hospital also employed a modified pavilion plan which had its origins in French hospital design.
New York hospitals had long recognized a need to serve patients who did not require hospitalization but could not afford the services of a private doctor. The idea of the dispensary seems to date back at least to mid-18th century London, where a clinic was established in Red Lion Square, Holborn as early as 1769.
From its beginning the Jews’ Hospital had attended to minor illnesses, but it was not until 1872 that the directors announced in the Annual Report the intention to establish "an infirmary for the treatment of out-door patients." Organized into four sections — Internal Medicine, Surgical, Gynecological, and Children’s — Mt. Sinai’s Dispensary began its life in 1875 in two rooms in the basement of the building. Indeed Mt. Sinai was the first New York hospital to establish a separate clinic for children, an indication of the trend towards specialization in both medicine and health care which was only then beginning in American hospitals.
The "out-door" department quickly outgrew its two rooms; by 1877 it occupied four rooms in the basement. Dispensaries by this time were fairly common adjuncts to major hospitals, and many were established independently in neighborhoods distant from a hospital, such as the Manhattan Dispensary founded in Harlem in 1862. By the 1880s the "out-door" departments of the Upper East Side hospitals were characterized by over-crowded conditions and a heavy demand on their services. In 1882 Mt. Sinai’s Dispensary handled nearly 39,000 consultations and 40,000 prescriptions, a nine-fold increase from its first busy year.
A new building was required which would not only permit more space but would remove the clinic from the hospital. Separate dispensary buildings were constructed at most of the area’s hospitals during these years. The German Hospital (later Lenox Hill Hospital) established its dispensary in 1884; Presbyterian Hospital’s followed in 1888 and Hahnehman’s in 1891.
In 1889 the directors of Mt. Sinai Hospital leased land across 67th Street to construct a new building for its dispensary which had expanded both its staff and departments. Most importantly an Eye and Ear Department had been established, headed by the well-known Dr. Carl Koller, famous for his discovery of the usefulness of cocaine
Andy Cohen
April 12, 2007 – Jared Shelly, Jewish Exponent Feature
In the early years of the 20th century, American Jews had an ambivalent relationship with sports. The stereotype had it that Jewish mothers did everything in their power to keep their precious sons from playing football or stepping into a boxing ring. And yet, in time, there were many great Jewish athletes — and as fans, Jews proved themselves to be as spirited and animated as any other American.
In fact, in an important way, sports served as a driving force in helping immigrant Jews become more American.
Andy Cohen is one athlete examined in a new class at Temple.
To prove this point to a class of college students, Rabbi Rebecca Alpert recently displayed a 1909 article translated from a Yiddish newspaper that hoped to teach the community the fundamentals of baseball. Although a bit long-winded, the article by Abraham Cahan, editor of the Forward — the famous Yiddish daily in New York — explained that getting interested in baseball could eventually help Jewish immigrants assimilate into American society.
"He was getting Jews to think about involvement in baseball because it’s the American pastime, the national game," explained Alpert last month to about 15 Temple University students.
Her weekly class — "Jews, America and Sports" — is in its first semester at Temple, and is one facet of the religion and Jewish-studies curriculum at the academic institution. The class analyzes the 20th-century Jewish-American experience by exploring the community’s connection to boxing, basketball, baseball and other sports, showing how successful athletes helped to undermine anti-Semitism and promote assimilation. It examines international events, like the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, and the role of sports in Israel.
During one of two separate lessons about baseball, Alpert read a quirky poem called "Cohen at the Bat," a play on the famous "Casey at the Bat," featuring not the mighty slugger from Mudville, but the mediocre New York Giants second baseman Andy Cohen. While Casey famously strikes out at the end of his poem, old Andy got the winning hit.
"They were trying to bring in Jewish fans," stated Alpert, who explained that the Giants promoted Cohen as a source of inspiration and identification, in order to sell tickets to the city’s large Jewish population.
Alpert then passed around some memorabilia and artifacts, including a children’s book called The Matzah Ball: A Passover Story, which depicts a child forgoing the traditional ballpark fare of hot dogs and popcorn for a home-packed lunch. In the end, the young boy catches the game-winning home-run ball, which winds up crushing the matzah he was holding.
Jonathan Blanford, a 26-year-old senior, is not Jewish like most of his other classmates, but he took the course because of his intrinsic interest in the topic.
"I like conversing with people and knowing something about [their] religion," he said. "If I’m able to talk to a Jewish person and can understand some terms, there’s some common ground."
One of the students knows firsthand what it’s like to be a Jewish athlete.
Adam Goldstein, an 18-year-old freshman, was recently drafted as an outfielder by the Federal League, an independent baseball organization in South Florida. The class offers Goldstein the chance to expand his knowledge of sports and history that he learned from his grandfather, a sports-card store owner in his native Scranton.
For one of his recent assignments, Goldstein wrote about how he hopes to add one more Jewish name to the short list of major-leaguers.
"I wrote about how few Jewish baseball players have played professional baseball," he said, "and how I aspire to play professional baseball, and how I’m not letting that statistic affect my attitude toward the game."
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London-based trio South are envoys of that “new” ethic of guitar-stroking, comedown-friendly rock & roll ambience also practiced by the likes of Turin Brakes and Kings Of Convenience. For the most part, From Here On In makes like a celestial meeting of Nick Drake and the Stone Roses, with South’s delicate finger-picked melodies launching out into the outer realms of the sprawling space-rock jam. However, as the first indie-rock band signed to James Lavelle’s notoriously hip beats label Mo’ Wax, South are a guitar band who do occasionally take in dramatic rolls of DJ Shadow-esque drums, fuzzy Money Mark-style keyboard washes, and moody orchestral strings torn straight from UNKLE’s hymn sheet. “Everyone / Will come down in time” promises the harmonized chorus of “I Know What You’re Like.” Not yet, though; this fine album guarantees a 70-minute trip, so strap yourself in and experience the latest rebuff to the tired chants of “Rock is dead.” –Louis Pattison
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