Emergency Health Care Gets a New Face in NYC

Perkins Eastman restored Albert Ledner's 1964 National Maritime Union headquarters in Manhattan's West Village, and inserted a stand-alone emergency department inside. When New York's St. Vincent's Hospital closed in 2010 after years of financial strife, Greenwich Village lost a beloved 150-year-old institution that had served the poor and working class and was "ground zero" when the AIDS epidemic erupted in the 1980s.

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