 The New York Infirmary for Women and Children was founded at 321 East 15th Street by the pioneering woman physician, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell.The New York Lying-In Hospital on Second Avenue at 17th Street, is now condominiums, but the Hospital for Joint Diseases, a unit of NYU Medical Center is located across the avenue.Other now non-existent hospitals included the Salvation Army's William Booth Memorial Hospital, Manhattan General, and St. Andrew's Convalescent Hospital.