Schwarzman Animal Medical Center’s Expansion Progresses at 510 East 62nd Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Renovation and expansion work is underway on Schwarzman Animal Medical Center, a ten-story veterinary hospital at 510 East 62nd Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Perkins + Will, the $70 million non-profit project was funded by the Langone and Tisch families, Annette de la Renta, and public campaigning, and will add 11,000 square feet to the existing 26,000-square-foot, 113-year-old structure. The property is bound by the FDR Drive to the east, East 61st Street to the south, York Avenue to the west, and East 62nd Street to the north.

Photographs taken across the East River from Roosevelt Island show the steadily growing steel addition on the southern side of the structure. A construction elevator has been attached to the eastern façade while scaffolding covers the northeastern corner of the light-colored edifice. More sections of the expansion will be assembled throughout the rest of the summer.

The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center. Photo by Michael Young

The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center. Photo by Michael Young

Plans call for four additional operating rooms that will triple the hospital’s trauma center capacity, a doubling of the scope of the intensive care unit facilities, expansion of the neurology center from 100 to 460 square feet, a primary care suite spanning 1,100 square feet, and a special care unit with a dog run on the third floor. There will also be new recovery and minor procedure room, an ophthalmology suite, and more conference space for postgraduate veterinary training within the fourth and fifth floors’ 5,500-square foot expansion.

Overall, the upgrades are projected to increase the capacity to 100,000 patients, families and staff per year.

Construction for the new wing of the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center is reported to be completed sometime later this year.

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