[10][11] "Six Roman Catholic Sisters of Misercorde with a capital of $1" opened Misericordia Hospital in 1887 in "a tumble-down old residence on Staten Island.

[1] The facility's mailing address was 531 East 86th Street, New York City in the [Yorkville, Manhattan] neighborhood.

In 1955 the hospital announced that it had purchased land in the Bronx and was beginning construction of a modern 3-block medical center.

[1] Their 531 East Eighty-sixth Street building in Manhattan was sold, via a real-estate agent, to "erect a tall apartment house on the site.

[18] That same year, New York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation "questioned the large proportion of foreign-trained physicians on the Misericordia staff, in the belief that training in the United States was generally superior.