The Jacob S. Lasdon House, located at 420 E. 70th Street, is dedicated on July 31, 1974. The building included 300 apartments for students, faculty, and staff - and the college bookstore on the first floor.
The William Hale Harkness Medical Research Building, located on York Avenue, is dedicated on September 9, 1968, but is not officially opened until 1969. (Photo by B. G. International.)
The Lawrence G. Payson House, built at 435 East 70th Street to house doctors, nurses, and medical center staff, is dedicated on June 22, 1967. (Photo by Gil Amiaga.)
The Theodora Griffis Faculty Club, which offers dining and meeting facilities for faculty members, is built on East 68th Street. (Photo by Gil Amiaga.)
The Samuel J. Wood Library and Research Building, located at 1300 York Avenue, is dedicated on October 17, 1962. (Photo by Werner Wolff, Black Star.)
The Connie Guion Building, the first building named in honor of a living woman physician, is erected on East 70th Street. The building, dedicated on May 8, 1963, houses an emergency pavilion, ambulatory care (outpatient) facilities, and the Vincent Astor Cardiopulmonary Center.
The Phipps and Staff Houses are built to provide housing for medical center staff, at 445 East 68th Street. In 2015, the buildings are torn down to make way for a new hospital ambulatory care building.
Named for Franklin W. Olin, this student housing and administrative office building is constructed at 445 East 69th Street. The groundbreaking ceremony is held on March 4, 1953, and the building is dedicated on November 15, 1954.
In September, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center opens. The complex includes buildings for New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital School of Nursing, and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. (Photo by William Frange.)
In April, Dr. Ronald Crystal, Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, is the first to use a genetically altered cold virus to treat cystic fibrosis, at his research laboratory at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He continues his pioneer research at this medical center.
Two years later, in 1995, Dr. Crystal performs a similar gene therapy to treat colorectal cancer that has metastasized the liver. (Photo by Medical Art and Photography.)
