Lenox Health Greenwich Village
- Architect
- Albert C. Ledner
- Year
- 1964
- City
- Manhattan, NY
Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital, formerly Lenox Health Greenwich Village, occupies a 1964 building designed by Albert C. Ledner as headquarters for the National Maritime Union. It later became a hospital building under Saint Vincent's Hospital and then Northwell Health, and sits within the Greenwich Village Historic District.
the building
An ocean-liner facade. Ledner gave the building a white facade with porthole-like windows, scalloped overhangs, and an elevator penthouse shaped like a steamship smokestack, a design that stood out against the glass-box Modernism common at the time. Ceramic tiles added in 1966 were removed in a 2014–2016 renovation.
the architect
Albert C. Ledner designed this building as one of three Lower Manhattan headquarters buildings for the National Maritime Union; another survives today as the Maritime Hotel.
significance
The building lies within the Greenwich Village Historic District.
nearby
- Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Substation 235
- New York Savings Bank
- Jefferson Market building
- Stonewall Inn
- 111 Eighth Avenue