Neponsit Beach Hospital, also known as Neponsit Beach Hospital for Children, Neponsit Hospital, Neponsit Children's Hospital, and various other names, is a former municipal tuberculosis sanatorium located adjacent to Jacob Riis Park and the Neponsit community (part of the larger district of Belle Harbor — as until the mid-1950s all telephones south of Beach 49th Street in the Rockaways were on the "BElle Harbor 5" exchange, which utilized manual switching until then, when the prefix was also changed to "GRanite 4"), located toward the southern end of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, New York City. Originally oriented towards the treatment of children, the hospital treated military veterans during and after World War II, but closed in 1955 due to a declining need for tuberculosis hospitals