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FEMA to open 200-bed hospital at Van Cortlandt Park

By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN

Posted 4/5/20

Van Cortlandt Park is one of the largest parks in New York City, a center for sports and recreation in the Bronx. But now, in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the park is about to become something entirely new: A field hospital.

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