It "served the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn.

"[1][2][3] The hospital was in "a seven-story, fireproof building" and was located at "the corner of Greene Ave and Adelphi St."[4][5] For five years, covering three contracts,[1] the hospital and a union for nonprofessional employees went through a strike [6][7] about which The New York Times used the word tinderbox.

[8] The situation "emptied most beds in the hospital and forced many strikers to seek welfare assistance.

"[9] The Brooklyn Public Library archive noted that The hospital's 54 Green Avenue property housed its Adelphi Mental Health Clinic.

[11] After the hospital closed, part of it served as a medical center run by Josephine English, "the first African-American licensed obstetrician/gynecologist in New York State.