Did you know that Garden City once had one of the largest hospitals in the country? With 2,000 beds it was larger than the four largest present-day Nassau County hospitals. It was state-of-the-art for its time and was a complex of some 30 buildings, with its own railroad siding and power plant.

This was a working hospital that served some 200,000 people and had some very serious medical cases to care for; one situation alone caused 900 deaths at this hospital in the span of a few weeks.

Yet for all its impressive size, technology and patient care, this medical complex lasted less than three years and its main structures lasted less than a year.

Soon Garden City will honor this facility. Care to guess what it was, its name and where it was, or at least where the main entrance was? See an article in next week's Garden City Life to find out the answer.