River Crest Sanitarium was a New York State licensed mental hospital located in Astoria, Queens.

River Crest was founded in 1896 by John J. Kindred (1864-1937), a Virginia native who moved to Queens and was elected to the House of Representatives, serving from 1911 to 1913 and 1921 to 1929.

[1][2][3] The institution went out of business in 1961.

"A high school now occupies the rear of the site,"[4] and a local restaurant is "named after the Sanitarium.

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