Word Origin & History. auspices pl. (and now the usual form) of auspice; 1530s, observation of birds for the purpose of taking omens, from Fr. auspice (14c.), from L. auspicum function of an auspex (q.v.).
Kings County Hospital Center Location 451 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11203 (718) 245-3901 Get Directions.
King's Daughters' Hospital opened in 1897 as a three-room emergency hospital over the Poage, Elliott and Poage Drug Store on Winchester Avenue near 16th Street. In 1899, the hospital itself was founded by What-so-ever Circle and moved to a seven-room building at 18th Street and Greenup Avenue.