New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center

1933 with multiple expansions. A massive complex fronting the East River, the Cornell University Medical College was founded April 14, 1898 with an endowment by Col. Oliver H. Payne. Today, it continues to expand primarily to the north and east on a platform extending over FDR Drive. Established in New York City because Ithaca, where the main Cornell campus is located, was deemed too small to offer adequate clinical training opportunities, it was the first medical school in the United States of America to admit women alongside men. In 1998, Cornell University Medical College's affiliate hospital, New York Hospital, merged with Presbyterian 
Hospital to form a combined institution operating today as New York-Presbyterian Hospital.