Veritas House - Samaritan Daytop Village (New York City, New York) | rehabilitation center

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4-story Renaissance-revival community residence providing long-term and inpatient drug rehab, completed as an apartment building around 1890 as a twin to the adjoining building to the east. The facade is clad in red-painted brick above an altered ground floor that is now faced in salmon-colored stucco. A small stoop with metal handrails leads to a central entrance with a metal door below a rounded, green canvas canopy angling down over the stoop. The double-windows on either side are much shorter than the originals.

The upper floors have four bays of single-windows with brownstone hooded lintels. A grey metal fire escape runs down the middle two bays of the facade, which is a bare, tan-painted parapet where the original roof cornice was.

Samaritan Daytop Village was founded in 1960 by Father Damian Pitcaithly with the opening of the Astoria Consultation Center in Queens. In 1970, the agency opened its first residential facility to treat addiction in Sullivan County. Veritas House was Samaritan Village's first community residence.