NYC hospitals
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NY Child Welfare Trivia
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Originally founded in 1736, this institution is considered the oldest public hospital in the US.
What is Bellevue Hospital? (Named after Belle Vue farm, the property the city of NY purchased to move the hospital to in 1798)
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Founded by brothers Eli and Oren Halali in 2007, this NYC pizza chain is famous for it's dollar slices (though they may now be $1.50!)
What is 2 Bros Pizza?
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Played by Julianna Marguiles, this character became nurse manager of the ER in the show "ER."
Who is Carol Hathaway?
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Built in 1912, this building on 1st Avenue originally housed the city's morgue and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. ACS acquired the building in 1997, renovated it and opened this center in 2001.
What is the Nicholas Scopetta Children's Center?
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This boat-based hospital provided health care to NYC's medically underserved communities for over 130 years before moving its facilities to land permanently in 2001.
What is the Floating Hospital?
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Originally founded in Little Italy in 1959, the name of this pizza place spawned dozens of other independent stores with a copycat name.
What is Ray's pizza? (Famous Ray's Pizza, Ray's Original Pizza, World Famous Original Ray's Pizza)
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This is the only significant nurse character on the hit HBO Max show, The Pitt (as far as I can tell).
Who is Dana Evans?
200
Between the 1850's and 1929, many orphaned children were put on this form of transportation to travel from crowded eastern cities to families out west.
What are trains? (called "Orphan Trains" or "Mercy Trains"--primarily spearheaded by three NYC institutions, Children's Village, Children's Aid and NY Foundling)
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Founded in 1997, this healthcare network has now become the largest in NY state.
What is Northwell Health?
300
This Greenwich Village pizza institution is named for--and still owned by--its founder, an Italian immigrant from Naples who opened the shop in 1975.
What is Joe's Pizza?
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This head nurse character on the TV show M*A*S*H* made 239 appearances on the show, second only to Dr "Hawkeye" Pierce, played by Alan Alda.
Who is Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan?
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This agency evolved over many years and had several names over that time. It got its current name under Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1995.
What is the Administration for Children's Services?
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This institution served the NYC community in Greenwich village for over 160 years before closing in 2010.
What is Saint Vincent's? (It was the primary admitting hospital for those injured in the 9/11 attacks. It opened the first and largest AIDS ward on the East Coast.)
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This humorous "economic law" printed in a NYT article in 1980 noted that from the early 1960's "the price of a slice of pizza has matched, with uncanny precision, the cost of a New York Subway ride."
What is the Pizza Principle? (In 2025, Gothamist published an article titled "NYC slices now far more expensive than subway fare as 'pizza principle' disappears")
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In the TV comedy/drama Scrubs, Judy Reyes played this character, who was head nurse of the fictional Sacred Heart Hospital.
Who is Carla Espinosa?
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This secular child welfare institution was founded in 1853 and is considered to have started the first formal system of foster care in the United States.
What is Children's Aid? (Formerly Children's Aid Society; it is considered one of America's oldest and largest children's nonprofits)
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With over 4000 beds, this hospital is the largest in NYC and one of the largest in the world.
What is NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital?
500
Located in Little Italy, this pizzeria claims to be the first to open in the United States. It started off selling what it called "tomato pies."
What is Lombardi's Pizza?
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This medical drama has scrub nurse character BokHee An as part of its cast. Bokhee has made 325 appearances on the show and has been in every season. She is played by Kathy An, who spent her career as a scrub nurse and is now in her mid-80's!
What is Grey's Anatomy?
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Originally started in 1869 by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity, this is now one of the oldest and largest child welfare organizations in NYC.
What is the New York Foundling?