History of New York City to form the new municipal government originally called "Greater New York". The Borough of Brooklyn incorporated the independent City of Brooklyn, recently joined to Manhattan by the Brooklyn Bridge; the Borough of Queens was created from western Queens County (with the remnant established as Nassau County in 1899); and the Borough of Richmond contained all of Richmond County. Municipal governments contained within the boroughs were abolished, and the county governmental functions were absorbed by the city or each borough. In 1914, the New York State Legislature created Bronx County, making five counties coterminous with the five boroughs. The Bronx had
Central Park Hospital who built the complex and provided nursing staff). Following the Civil War the buildings and site became a sculpture museum and restaurant, called variously the Mount St. Vincent Hotel, Stetson's Hotel, and the McGown's Pass Tavern. Today the site is used by the Central Park Conservancy as a composting area. It should not be confused with Park Hospital, which was the renamed Red Cross Hospital also located on Central Park in New York City from 1914–1922 and which the current New York University Hospital is partly descended from. Central Park Hospital The Central Park Hospital (officially the U.S. General Hospital,