Charles Greenfield

Charles Greenfield (c. 1885 – 1979) was an American engineer and hospital administrator. Trained as an engineer in New York City, Greenfield later became the first administrator of the Shore Road Hospital.[1] Earlier he "helped design and build the Coney Island boardwalk."[1][2]

For the British fireman Charles Norman Greenfield (1907–1997), see Norman Greenfield.

Charles Greenfield
Bornc. 1885
Died1979 (1980)

Career

Greenfield was a civil engineer with degrees from Cooper Union (1908)[1] and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (1912).[2] Although he used this knowledge in the design and building of the Coney Island Boardwalk and "the first road between Little Neck and Great Neck, L.I."[2] he is best known for converting a mansion in Brooklyn[3] into Shore Road Hospital and then directing it[4] for 43 years.[1]

Prior to dying at age 94, he was the only living alumnus of his Cooper and Poly graduating classes.[2]

Family

When he died at age 94 in 1979, his living family members included his wife, two daughters, "three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.[1]

References
  1. "Charles Greenfield". New York Times. April 15, 1979.
  2. "Charles Greenfield". New York Daily News. April 14, 1979. p. 23.
  3. Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris) (April 25, 2014). "Past and Present: Shore Road Hospital". Brownstoner Magazine.
  4. "Records & Briefs New York State Appellate Division: Charles Greenfield, Director". p. 30.


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