IN MEMORIAM
Dr. Harvey Leventhal, 90, Cooperstown;
Pioneered CT Scanning On Staten Island
Editor’s Note: A celebration of life for Dr. Harvey Leventhal, an eminent neurosurgeon on Staten Island who retired to Cooperstown, is planned 4-6 p.m. Sunday, May 20, at Origins Café & Carefree Gardens on Beaver Meadow Road. This obituary is from SIlive.com, the web site of the Staten Island Advance.
By CLAIRE REGAN • Staten Island Advance
STATEN ISLAND – Dr. Harvey R. Leventhal, 90, of Cooperstown, and formerly of Emerson Hill, a pioneering neurosurgeon who was among the first physicians to introduce CT scans and the MRI to Staten Island patients, died March 6 in Albany Medical Center.
Born in Brooklyn on Feb. 29, 1928, he was a leap-year baby and never let anyone forget it, his family recalled fondly. Even at 90, he told anyone who asked that he was 22-and-a-half years old – leap years, that is. Every four years, his family hosted a spectacular party to make up for the three previous no-birthday years.
Dr. Leventhal lived briefly in West Brighton before moving to Emerson Hill in the early 1970s and to Cooperstown 11 years ago.
