Seaview Hospital ca. 1937

Planned and built from 1905- 1938, Seaview Hospital, though now a historic district, was the largest and most costly municipal facilities for the treatment of tuberculosis.

From 1913–1960, Seaview Hospital on Staten Island was one of the nation’s leading TB facilities—treating patients away from the general population and providing them with care.

Because TB was highly infectious, many white nurses, who had their choice of other assignments refused to work at Seaview. City officials recruited African-American nurses from around the country; they became known as the “Black Angels.”