Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis
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| Location | 161-25 Parsons Boulevard,Jamaica, New York City, New York, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°43′02″N 73°48′28″W / 40.717318°N 73.807760°WCoordinates: 40°43′02″N 73°48′28″W / 40.717318°N 73.807760°W |
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| Funding | Public |
| Hospital type | Tuberculosis hospital (former) |
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| Founded | January 2, 1941 |
| Closed | Circa 2000 |
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| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in New York |
Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis or Triboro Tuberculosis Hospital, later simply Triboro Hospital and now known as "Building T" or the "T Building", is a former municipal tuberculosis sanatorium and later a general hospital located on the campus of Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. Completed in 1941, it was merged with the adjacent Queens General Hospital to form Queens Hospital Center in the 1950s, and converted into a general hospital by the 1970s. Now primarily used for administrative purposes, several plans have been proposed to reuse the site, or to preserve the building as a historic landmark.
Triboro Hospital is located the west end of the Queens Hospital Center campus on Parsons Boulevard between 82nd Drive and Goethals Avenue. The building was designed by architect John Russell Pope, and later by the Eggers & Higgins firm after Pope's death, in Art Moderne-style. New York City Commissioner of Hospitals Dr. Sigismund Goldwater supervised the design. The hospital served Queens, as well as Brooklyn and the Bronx.
The building is a total of eleven-stories high, with nine floors for patients and two additional mechanical floors. As opposed to standing parallel to the street, the building was built at a diagonal or " ", facing southwest towards the intersection of Parsons and 82nd Drive. The orientation allowed afternoon sunlight to hit the front of the building. It features one main wing facing southwest, with shorter wings at each end angled inward to fit the property. The hospital was built with a patient capacity of over 500 with six-bed hospital wards. It was designed with numerous windows and glass interior walls, glass-encolsed sunrooms or solariums, and cantilever balconies, all to maximize natural light entering the facility and exposure of patients to the sun. Each floor of the hospital had three sunrooms. Its basement was built with locker, dining, and storage facilities, along with a tunnel connecting to the then-Queens General Hospital buildings. Triboro Hospital's outer design has a "symmetrical facade and a minium of ornamentation," utilizing gray brick and limestone trim. It was built with four elevators installed by the Otis Elevator Company.
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