Charles Greenfield (1884 or 1885 – 1979) was an American engineer and hospital administrator. Trained as an engineer in New York City, Greenfield later became the first administrator of the Shore Road Hospital.[1] Earlier he "helped design and build the Coney Island boardwalk."[1][2]
Career
Greenfield was a civil engineer with degrees from Cooper Union (1908)[1]
and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (1912).[2] Although he used this knowledge in the design and building of the Coney Island Boardwalk and "the first road between Little Neck and Great Neck, L.I."[2] he is best known for converting a mansion in Brooklyn[3] into Shore Road Hospital and then directing it[4] for 43 years.[1]
Prior to dying at age 94, he was the only living alumnus of his "Cooper" and "Poly" graduating classes.[2]
Family
When he died at age 94 on April 12, 1979, his living family members included his wife, two daughters, "three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.[1]
