Month: June 2016

The Floating Hospital: 150 Years of Care

Published on Jun 22, 2016 by Charity, Hospitalsin Charity, Hospitals

RAND’s Yuni Song and Suzanna Takayama, RA with the Floating Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer Shani Andre, MD (center).

In 1866, New York City’s first charity pediatric clinic began as a ship docked in lower Manhattan. It was the start of a series of vessels and barges that took poor immigrant children and their parents away from the unsanitary...

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RAND Selected for Brooklyn War Memorial Project

Published on Jun 16, 2016 by Brooklyn, Building Condition Surveys, Company News, Historic Preservation, Renovationin Brooklyn, Building Condition Surveys, Company News, Historic Preservation, Renovation

Brooklyn War Memorial Honors 2016

In Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza stand two imposing figures, Victory and Family, 24-foot-tall limestone sculptures flanking a memorial honoring the Brooklynites who lost their lives during the Second World War. Dedicated in 1951, the memorial is one of five WWII tributes...

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