Manhattan Psychiatric Center

Manhattan Psychiatric Center
New York State Office of Mental Health
The Manhattan Psychiatric Center, shown behind the ramp to the Triborough Bridge, and just to the left of the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in the foreground
Geography
Location	New York City, New York, United States
Organization
Funding	Public hospital
Links
Lists	Hospitals in New York

The Manhattan Psychiatric Center is a New York-state run psychiatric hospital on Wards Island in New York City. As of 2009, it was licensed for 509 beds, but held only around 200 patients. The current building is 17-stories tall.^[1] The building strongly resembles that of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.

The hospital's roots date to 1848 when Wards Island was designated the reception area for immigrants. Some additional structures were originally part of Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum, which opened around 1863.^[2] The New York City Asylum for the Insane opened in 1863.^[3]

The building was significantly enlarged in 1871, and a Kirkbride Plan style building was built. After the immigration entry shifted to Ellis Island in 1892, the state took it over from Manhattan in 1899 and expanded it even further, renaming it the Manhattan State Hospital.^[3] At the time, it had 4,400 beds and was the largest psychiatric hospital in the world.^[4]

At the time, it was one of two psychiatric hospitals for residents of Manhattan that had been taken over by the state. The other psychiatric hospital would become the Central Islip Psychiatric Center in Central Islip, New York. Both hospitals were referred to as "Manhattan State Hospital".

It later became the Manhattan Psychiatric Center. The facility is run and operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health.

The site is surrounded by Wards Island Park, which is administered by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.^[4]

-There is a Manned VTS Vessel Traffic Service Radar on one of the Original Hospital buildings: VTS Randalls Island, Manned VTS

Notable patients and visitors

Louis Pioggi, gangster
Martin Hildebrandt, tattoo artist
Scott Joplin was hospitalized in 1916 for dementia caused by syphilis, and died there on April 1, 1917.
Wilhelm Steinitz, the first undisputed world chess champion, was hospitalized with mental illness possibly caused by syphilis, and died there on August 12, 1900.
Mabel Boll, "The Queen of Diamonds" died of a stroke at the facility in April 1949 at the age of 54.^[5]
On October 21, 1954, Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke at the Al Smith Dinner to the staff of the hospital.^[6]

References

↑ "MANHATTAN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER - NEW YORK, NY", Hospital Data website
↑ New York and Its Institutions, 1609-1871 - John Francais Richmond - E.B. Treat -1871
1 2 New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, "Wards Island Park"
1 2 "Wards Island Park - Historical Sign". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
↑ "Mabel Boll Dies. 'Diamond Queen'. Bartender's Daughter Owned Fabulous Gems. Balked in Efforts to Fly Atlantic". New York Times. April 12, 1949. Mrs. Mabel Boll Cella, who wanted to be Queen of the Air when the world knew her as the Queen of Diamonds, died Sunday of a stroke in Manhattan State Hospital for the mentally ill on Wards Island.
↑ Remarks at the Manhattan State Hospital, Wards Island, New York City. October 21, 1954

External links

Coordinates: 40°47′21″N 73°55′47″W / 40.78917°N 73.92972°W / 40.78917; -73.92972

State of New York psychiatric hospitals

Adult / Children facilities	Capital District Elmira Greater Binghamton Hutchings Mohawk Valley Rochester St. Lawrence South Beach

Adult facilities	Bronx Buffalo Creedmoor Kingsboro Manhattan Pilgrim Rockland

Children's facilities	Bronx Brooklyn Queens Rockland Sagamore Western New York

Forensic facilities	Central New York Kirby Mid-Hudson Rochester

Research facilities	Nathan S. Kline New York State

Closed facilities	Blackwell's Island Bloomington Central Islip Dannemora Edgewood Gowanda Harlem Valley Hudson River Psych Hudson River State Kings Park Letchworth Village Long Island Manhattan Matteawan Middletown Mohansic New York New York Inebriate Newville Utica Western New York Willard Willowbrook

Sanatorium	Interpines Loomis

Hospitals in New York City

Manhattan	Bellevue Coler Gracie Square Harlem Joint Diseases Lenox Hill Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Manhattan Psychiatric Manhattan Veterans Administration Memorial Sloan Kettering Metropolitan Morgan Stanley Children's Mount Sinai Mount Sinai Beth Israel Mount Sinai St. Luke's Mount Sinai West New York Eye and Ear of Mount Sinai NewYork–Presbyterian-Columbia NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Lower Manhattan NewYork-Presbyterian-Cornell NYU Langone Rockefeller Sloane Special Surgery

Brooklyn	Brookdale Brooklyn Brooklyn Veterans Administration Coney Island Interfaith Kingsbrook Kings County Maimonides Mount Sinai Brooklyn New York Community New York Methodist NYU Lutheran SUNY Downstate Woodhull Wyckoff Heights

The Bronx	Bronx Psychiatric Bronx-Lebanon Calvary Jacobi James J. Peters Veterans Administration Lincoln Montefiore–Moses Division Montefiore–Weiler (Einstein) Division Montefiore–Wakefield Division North Central Bronx St. Barnabas

Queens	Creedmoor Elmhurst Floating Flushing Forest Hills Jamaica Long Island Jewish New York–Presbyterian Queens Queens Queens Children's Psychiatric St. John's Episcopal South Shore St. Mary's (Children) Zucker Hillside

Staten Island	Bayley Seton Richmond University South Beach Psychiatric Staten Island University

Networks	Mount Sinai NYC Health + Hospitals NewYork-Presbyterian Northwell Health

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