hospitals in manhattan

If you had a choice, you would go to Lenox Hill Hospital (which is on the upper East Side). The Harlem Hospital Center (which would probably be closest for your characters) is very crowded and underfunded.

Mt. Sinai is on the Upper West Side near Columbia University. There's also St. Luke's/Roosevelt, which (I believe) is in the Fifties on the West Side.

Mount Sinai is also a good choice, but it, too, is on the upper East Side--it's at 5th Avenue and 101st Street.

St. Luke's is at 113th and Amsterdam on the upper West Side. Apparently its emergency room is now considered one of the best in the city; 25 years ago, when I lived at 117th and Columbus, if I got sick I would take a cab over to Lenox Hill.

Thanks for the corrections, Empress! I didn't realize St. Luke's was that far uptown (or that Mt. Sinai was on the East Side-it's been a while since I lived in the city ).

Speaking as someone currently living on the UWS...

St. Luke's has a hospital center on Tenth Avenue and 59th Street. If you were in an ambulance, that's probably where they'd take you.