Bay Ridge Hospital

Pre-World War I plans to build a hospital at Seventh Avenue, to be named Bay Ridge Hospital, were altered, and that location became Victory Memorial Hospital,[4] as "a monument to the soldiers of the section who died in service."[5] The result was described as "There would be no more Bay Ridge Hospital. Or would there?"[4]

A series of steps led to what actually became Bay Ridge Hospital:[4]

• In 1912 "a group of local doctors" bought and converted a mansion "on Ovington Avenue, between Third and Fourth" into what was named "Bay Ridge Sanitarium, which had 12 beds."
• In 1920 "a fireproof, one-story maternity ward was built."
• By 1926 they had added space to the fire-vulnerable Sanitarium, and they had a total of 96 beds.

After a major fire, they rebuilt, resulting in a five-story fireproof 437 Ovington Street main building and, across the street, "the hospital purchased 438 Ovington Avenue for use as its nurses’ home."

The 438 building "no longer exists"[4] and 437 became "St. Nicholas Home for the elderly."[2]