Bloomingdale Insane Asylum

Bloomingdale Insane Asylum
Bloomingdale Insane Asylum
	Bloomingdale Insane Asylum c. 1831
Geography
Location	Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°48′31″N 73°57′41″W / 40.80861°N 73.96139°W
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The Bloomingdale Insane Asylum (1821–1889) was an American private hospital for the care of the mentally ill, founded by New York Hospital. It was located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, where Columbia University is now located. It relocated to White Plains, New York, as the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, now known as the "NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center."^[1]

The road leading to the asylum from the thriving city of New York (at the time consisting only of lower Manhattan) was called Bloomingdale Road in the 19th century, and is now called Broadway. The term "Bloomingdale" dates back to the era of Dutch rule in New Amsterdam, and is possibly a reference to "Bloemendaal," the name of a small village in the flower-growing region near Haarlem in the Netherlands.^[2]^[3] Bloomingdale is described as being a small village on the island, in Spafford's Gazetteer, of 1813.^[4]^[5]

^ McCaughey 2003, p. 205.
^ Dolkart 1998, p. 360 (footnote 12).
^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. p. 313. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5.
^ "A Gazetteer of The State of New York," Horatio Gates Spafford, Albany, NY, 1813, p. 86. "There are several small villages on York Island, detached from the compact part of the city, the principal of which are Greenwich, 3 miles above the city, on the bank of the Hudson, containing the State-Prison or Penitentiary; Manhattanville, and Haarlem, still further north, and Bloomingdale."
^ The 1824 edition (second edition) of "A Gazetteer of The State of New York," Horatio Gates Spafford, Albany, NY, 1824, again makes the statement, on page 353, but adds that it's "9 miles from the City Hall."

[FOOTNOTEMcCaughey2003205-1] McCaughey 2003, p. 205.

[FOOTNOTEDolkart1998360_(footnote_12)-2] Dolkart 1998, p. 360 (footnote 12).

[3] White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. p. 313. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5.

[4] "A Gazetteer of The State of New York," Horatio Gates Spafford, Albany, NY, 1813, p. 86. "There are several small villages on York Island, detached from the compact part of the city, the principal of which are Greenwich, 3 miles above the city, on the bank of the Hudson, containing the State-Prison or Penitentiary; Manhattanville, and Haarlem, still further north, and Bloomingdale."

[5] The 1824 edition (second edition) of "A Gazetteer of The State of New York," Horatio Gates Spafford, Albany, NY, 1824, again makes the statement, on page 353, but adds that it's "9 miles from the City Hall."

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