1977Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New YorkHospital / Health

St. Vincent's Hospital — Triangle Site Materials Handling Facility / tunnel

Joseph's 1977 St. Vincent's job may have been almost entirely invisible from the street: an underground hospital warehouse connected to the main campus by a tunnel beneath Seventh Avenue.

Photographed in 1973.

1973 · Photo: Suzanne Szasz · Public domain · Source

01The story

Why this project matters

Project identity: Very strong
Kelly connection: Family source
Masonry scope: Probable

Rita’s list

Rita Bartscherer’s handwritten entry: St. Vincent's Hospital — 1977

Transcription: St. Vincent's Hospital — 1977

Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record

Entry

KM-116

Sheet

2 of two

As written

“St. Vincent's Hospital — 1977”

Contemporary neighborhood records describe the underground warehouse and tunnel during 1977 approvals; later city planning documents show the Materials Handling Facility on the hospital campus.

Why it matters

A late-1970s St. Vincent’s construction project associated with the hospital’s dense Greenwich Village campus and below-grade logistics.

02What Kelly did

What Kelly did here

Kelly connection

Family source

Scope confidence

Probable

Likely: most likely CMU/concrete-block partitions, shafts, stair/elevator enclosures and other fire-rated/service walls; exterior brick or masonry backup is also plausible where the hospital addition used a masonry facade.

This scope is recorded as probable, not documented. It is a disciplined reading of the building and the trade practice of the period, not a contract-level record of Kelly’s work.

03Who built it