Goldwater Memorial Hospital opened in 1939 as the Welfare Hospital for Chronic Disease on what is today known as Roosevelt Island. The hospital originally operated as a center for polio survivors, and later provided care for geriatric, Alzheimer, and HIV/AIDS patients. With 2,700 windows, it was designed to bring light and air to its patients, with terraced rooms and solariums within each ward. Goldwater served NYC's vulnerable for close to 75 years. More than a nursing and rehabilitation facility, it was a place hundreds of New Yorkers called home until 2013, when its doors were permanently shut on December 31, making way for the new Cornell NYC Tech campus. As a gift to its staff and patients, this book was produced to memorialize its history, patients, and the golden years of public health in New York City.