PARK SLOPE — THE REV. DR. JOHN E. CARRINGTON, WHO DIED RECENTLY AT AGE 100, transformed America’s oldest Methodist Hospital that had been founded in 1887 here in Brooklyn.
According to an obituary by Lisa Isom in the United Methodist Church’s New York Annual Conference, Carrington was born in 1925 in New Rochelle. Living in Brooklyn as a youth, he once proved to his parents that he could cycle all the way to Washington, D.C. After serving in the army during World War II, he earned his undergraduate and theological degrees, served at several Methodist congregations and was a founding director of the Brooklyn Community Capital Bank.
It was Carrington’s time at New York Methodist Hospital that proved to be “a defining part of his legacy,” writes Isom, and also the most significant to Brooklyn. During his chairmanship of the board of trustees, from 1979-2016, Carrington steered Methodist Hospital through several decades of growth, and helped transform the facility into a major medical center. The hospital named one of its key buildings the John E. Carrington Pavilion in 1997, and twice presented him with its highest honor, the Lewis Pilcher Award.
New York Methodist Hospital was renamed as NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in December 2016.
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