Lying-In Hospital,[1][2] which was chartered in 1799, was given a strong boost in 1897 with "the magnificent gift of $1,000,000" from J. Pierpont Morgan.

[7] Their "Second Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets" location "was redeveloped as an apartment building in the 1980s.

"[8] The term Lying-in Hospital pre-existed the one described by The New York Times in their 1865 Death at a private lying-in hospital about a specific impoverished woman's 8th abortion, following which she died.

Other sources and other personnel, in particular two doctors and the father of one of them,[11] reactivated the dormant Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York[12] and, with funding from J. P. Morgan[13] (and later from Morgan's son) acquired a building and in 1932 "became the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of New York Hospital, occupying one of the pavilions along the East River.

"[7][14] It served primarily[15] as a Maternity hospital and was "said to account for 60 percent of all births in Manhattan.