01.societe.francaise

by Kevin Walsh

10 comments

Susan Freed March 7, 2015 - 4:57 pm

Hello,
I was born at the French Hospital in 1952 and I have been doing some genealogical research. Can you tell me some more about this hospital and what it was like in 1952? Do you know where they sent their medical records after they closed? Thanks so much.
Regards,
Susan Freed
sfreed1952@gmail.com

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Jeanne April 30, 2017 - 1:32 pm

Hi Susan,
I sent you an email – letting you know here in case it ends up in your spam folder

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Florence Parker April 25, 2015 - 8:07 pm

I was born in the French Hospital on February 12,1940. I had no idea until about 5 years ago that it still existed. I googled it and learned that it’s now an apartment building called the French apartments. Wow!, Glad to see a photo of my birth place.

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George Montalvan August 22, 2015 - 1:41 pm

My sister (Jan 1941) and I (May 1942) were both born at the French Hospital. Does anyone have a photo of it when the building was a hospital?

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John Cupak (nee Jon Tor Lang) March 14, 2017 - 3:44 pm

I was born at the hospital in July 1944, and would also be interested in birth records and pictures of the interior when it was a hospital.

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Frank M. Terry September 9, 2018 - 3:45 am

I also was born at the French Hospital May 8th 1947 I was conceived in France my mom now 93 me 72 wish I new more about this hospital where I was born
I’m living in R.I. SINCE 1961

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Danilo October 15, 2018 - 2:01 pm

I was born at this Hospital on Feb. 18th, 1967. I will be in NYCity this weekend and will visit the building with my daughter. It is interesting hope now it is an apartment building. I wonder in which apt I was born.

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Diana April 1, 2019 - 11:58 am

I was born at the French Hospitall April 20, 1946. I was conceived in England during WWII. My mother was an Army Nurse, and unwed. When she returned to the states in August 1945, the French Hospital and the YWCA had an agreement where military personnel in my mother’s condition could live at the Y, and work at the hospital and deliver there. My parents traveled down from Saratoga Springs, NY to pick me up at the French Hospital. I could never find the exact location until a few years ago…so on my 70th Birthday I spent a few days in NYC…and on April 20 walked to 330 W 30th and saw where I was born!

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Priscilla Speed Hunter May 21, 2020 - 4:36 pm

Hi: my mother trained as a nurse at French Hospital. She graduated in 1935. She told me many stories of her years there. I came to NYC in 2005 to scatter some of her ashes but I thought that the Hospital had been torn down (Mom thought it had) and so I didn’t seek it out. Bummer. Next time I come to NYC—as soon after this damn pandemic subside as possible—I will bring my memories of Mom’s stories to the apartment building. Perhaps I’ll be able to take one of your tours.

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cynthia nardin December 25, 2020 - 2:15 pm

I was born in the French Hospital in 1943. I remember my mother telling me that I cried so much that the nurse/nun? TOSSED me to my mother and said, “here, you take her, she wont stop crying!”
My grandparents were from France.

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