Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center is a maximum-security facility for the mentally ill on Wards Island in New York City, operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health as one of two psychiatric hospitals in the state that treat felony patients.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hospital
- Description: mental hospital in New York City
- Address: 600 East 125th Street, Wards Island, 10029
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Manhattan Psychiatric Center and Wards Island.
Manhattan Psychiatric Center
Hospital
Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Manhattan Psychiatric Center is a New York-state run psychiatric hospital on Wards Island in New York City. As of 2009, it was licensed for 509 beds, but holds only around 200 patients. Manhattan Psychiatric Center is situated 1,000 feet northeast of Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center.
Wards Island
Island
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Randalls Island and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Island, in New York City. Part of the borough of Manhattan, it is separated from Manhattan Island by the Harlem River, from Queens by the East River and Hell Gate, and from the Bronx by the Bronx Kill.
Wards Island Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
The Wards Island Bridge, also known as the 103rd Street Footbridge, is a bridge crossing the Harlem River between Manhattan Island and Wards Island in the Manhattan borough of New York City that does not allow vehicular traffic. Wards Island Bridge is situated 1,400 feet west of Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Harlem and Astoria.
East Harlem
Neighborhood
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East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem, or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.
Astoria
Neighborhood
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Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast, and Woodside and East Elmhurst to the east.
Upper East Side
Photo: Alex Proimos, CC BY 2.0.
The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center
- Categories: psychiatric hospital and health care
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.78653° or 40° 47′ 12″ northLongitude
-73.93226° or 73° 55′ 56″ westElevation
23 feet (7 metres)Open location code
87G8Q3P9+J3OpenStreetMap ID
node 357607688OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=hospitalOpenStreetMap feature
healthcare=hospitalGeoNames ID
5123510Wikidata ID
Q78638788
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