NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle

The NYC AIDS Memorial honors more than 100,000 New Yorkers who died of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). It also recognizes the contributions of caregivers and activists who mobilized to provide care for the ill, fight discrimination, lobby for medical research, and alter the drug approval process, effectively changing the trajectory of the epidemic. The Memorial aims to inspire and empower current and future activists, health professionals, and people living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS) in the continuing mission to eradicate the disease.

The Memorial sits on a triangular site that was most recently part of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital campus. Following the closing of the hospital in 2010, a public park was designed for the site through a community review process. The new park was constructed by the Rudin Management Company as part of the conversion of the hospital into a residential development and given to the City of New York in 2017. Many consider the Memorial’s location as the symbolic epicenter of the epidemic and the mobilization against it.

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Zip Code:10011
Community Board: 02
Council Member: Erik Bottcher
Park ID: M404
Acreage: 0.38
Property Type: Triangle/Plaza

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