Tribeca Pediatrics

I have to update my earlier rating, sadly from 5 stars to 1 — a huge drop. After almost 7 years with the practice, since I last posted, the standard of care we have received has gone exponentially downhill. It is impossible to get a well visit scheduled in a timely manner. Trying to get my children a flu shot is a wait of over 2 weeks. There is no longer any continuity of care — we used to love the pediatricians there (Maryann Tholany and Andrea Berne), but there has been a lot of turnover, and we don’t even know many of the names anymore, and they certainly don’t know my children or their history (other than the lady at the front desk, who has always been and continues to be amazing, but sadly does not treat my kids!)
I am so, so sad to say this, but it looks like we will have to leave the practice, as we just do not trust the care we are receiving anymore. They don’t know my kids well enough to really give me informed opinions that are specific to them, rather than generalized comments about children their age. Our visits are very standardized now, and don’t feel personal at all. So disappointed in this change.

Our First official visit
We have a pediatrician and she wasn’t open today. Tribeca pediatric understands and didn’t give us a hard time. They guided us through the process–
–Must register online first
–Then select location
–Then make appointment
–same co pay amount
We went on their website registered on our smartphone.
The front desk staff checked us in. There is a Small play area for kids– all toys were wood and there was books to read.
It was well maintained clean and neat and very organized.
The PMA staff is very friendly and not frosty. Dr. Stamatos is professional and knowledgable within 15mins our visit was swift. We had a extremely smooth and nice visit!!! Thank you!

I would never recommend this office to anyone. The superficial elements of this office may entice… the pretty wallpaper and lovely location, but as far as care it is not adequate. I brought both of my daughters her for several years, and was always surprised that the doctors always had such a relaxed «it’s perfectly fine» attitude. When it was discovered that my older daughter had a peanut allergy, no one in the office recommended a blood test. When we moved out of Brooklyn, our new doctor was shocked and told us that it really would have been helpful to have it as a point of reference from when she was 3. It is horrifying to look back on, but the night that my daughter accidentally ingested peanuts, the doctor on call actually told us not to worry and to go home and give her benadryl. I retrospect I am terrified that we did that. Although my daughter threw up most of the night, we did let her sleep. No one can believe we did this and did not take her to the hospital to be monitored. Her allergy (now that we have had her blood work done) is «off the charts» and she was showing signs of anaphylaxis. She could have died. Horrifiying. Another friend who took her daughter here (whom I happened to meet up with in the same town we moved to) kept asking about her daughter’s legs and, also was told «it’s perfectly fine». Turns out she needed leg braces and is currently undergoing massive physical therapy for what is a major problem (evidently from her child having a stroke in the womb). Something she has told me, would have been much much more productive to have started when her child was young. If your child has ANY issues or you want top medical care, do not come here.

I have been taking my 3 kids to their office (17, 15 and 7) for the past 5 years and I’m very happy with them! all 3 doctors Tholany, Berne and Lew are great. They listen to my concern, read the charts, always direct me to good specialist!
The wait is very minimal, the staff is very nice! doctors are pretty good about returning calls!

Our daughter has been a patient here for over a year now. We’ve been very pleased with this office. We never have to wait more than five minutes and they are very accommodating with last minute sick visits.

We’ve been bringing our now almost 2 year old here since the very beginning.
We’ve mostly been seen by Doctor Julie Lew and Doctor Maryann Tholany. The wait here is never more than 5 – 10 minutes — seriously, usually it’s right away. Tribeca Pediatrics gets 5 stars from me because this last winter was the winter from Hell. We decided to go to Atlantis in the Bahamas in December, and our son decided to get croup on our 3^rd day there.
Doctor Tholany was with us every step of the way, double checking the math on the dosage of medicine described by the local doctor in the Bahamas, checking in with us, talking to us after hours, etc. …amazing.
Upon our return we visited Doctor Julie Lew and she was intuitive enough to test our son for RSV, which it turned out he also had. This condition with croup required some special care, and Dr. Lew was very helpful and specific in her explanation of what we needed to do to manage his illness. Dr. Lew proceed to follow up with us several times to check on his progress.
Our son was sick for several weeks, but our interactions with Tribeca and particularly their follow up calls to us to ‘make sure everything was going ok’, just really helped a lot. As kids get sick a lot, we’ve been there for regular appointments and for sick visits, and no matter the reason, we are always greeted with a smile and the same level of compassion and care.

My kids are 9 and 6, and we’ve been through three different pediatrician offices, and have finally settled on and fallen in love with Tribeca Pediatrics. We joined when they opened a few years ago, because they’re only two blocks from where we live. So obviously, I love that I can get my kids there in minutes. I also love that we’ve never had to wait more than 10 minutes to see a doctor. At our former spot, a wait of an hour was considered normal.
I like Dr. T, she’s calm and to-​the-​point. I think a lot of neurotic Brooklynites who want to talk and talk and talk are thrown off by her simple, direct answers to questions, but I really appreciate her approach, and I’ve always found her advice spot-​on. For instance, both my kids suffered from Molluscum, a skin rash. My oldest got it first, and our former ped sent us to a dermatologist, who used a painful but effective acid-​type treatment to cure her (with a lot of tears along the way). By the time my youngest got Molluscum, we were at Tribeca Pediatrics, and Dr. T encouraged us to wait it out. She said «I know you feel like you need to make it disappear, but it’s not bothering him at all, it’s only bothering you.» We waited it out (took, like, 7 months!) and in fact it did go away on its own, with no tears or expensive derm treatments to contend with. This is all to say that I’ve learned to trust her, she seems to be right about my kids and what they need every time.

Dr, Berne is great! Make sure you bring your child to see her.