Sarah Jessica Parker : We hope that Brad Hoylman reads Sarah's Interview About the Need For a New Hospital in the West Village

Sarah Jessica Parker endorses a Full-Service Hospital to replace St. Vincent's.

In an interview with The Villager newspaper, Sarah Jessica Parker expressed her support for a full-service hospital to replace St. Vincent's.

''Asked what she thought of the latest post-St. Vincent’s proposal, for an emergency-care facility at the site of the former hospital’s O’Toole building, the Sex and the City star looked skeptical. 'I’m concerned, let’s put it that way,' she said. 'The community needs a hospital — and I think there’s been some clever obfuscation.' As a parent of three young children, she noted, she’s especially concerned about local healthcare. 'I would like to see a proper, functioning [hospital] — not a walk-in,' she stressed. She said she had spoken to Council Speaker Christine Quinn about the issue.''

The interview given by Ms. Parker took place before information came to light about a deceptive political campaign brochure, which was mailed to residents of the Lower West Side by a front group calling itself the ''Westside Healthcare Coalition.'' A WhoIs search on Network Solutions today showed that the website for the front group is registered to Mehigan, Bellone & Associates, Inc. Whereas Ms. Parker was not directly speaking to the example of the campaign brochure as political subterfuge, you can see how she has already been concerned with the pattern of clever obfuscation.

North Shore-LIJ have a vested interest in installing a first aid clinic in the O'Toole Building in the West Village, so that the Rudin Family can build luxury condominiums on the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital. Meanwhile, watch this video about what having a full-service hospital in the Lower West Side means to one parent, whose child was treated by the live-saving emergency room at St. Vincent's Hospital :

St. Vincent's 9/11 Tribute

I Will Wait For You -- St. Vincent's Hospital -- RIP 9-11 Tribute

Jane Jacobs would have saved St. Vincent's Hospital. Too bad Brad Hoylman couldn't.

Brad Hoylman North Shore-LIJ

Manhattan Community Board 2 - St. Vincent's Omnibus Committee will be holding a ''discussion'' about the first aid clinic that North Shore-LIJ wants to install at the O’Toole Building on Seventh Avenue.

Brad Hoylman, chairman of the St. Vincent's Omnibus Committee, will be presiding over a public discussion at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31, 2011.

The meeting will be taking place at the Auditorium of P.S. 41, located at 116 West 11th Street, New York City.

Ostensibly, the purpose of the meeting is for the St. Vincent's Omnibus Committee to discuss a proposal for a first aid clinic at the O'Toole Building, even though the full Community Board 2 had passed a resolution in 2010 calling for no change in zoning to the main campus of St. Vincent's Hospital.

To begin a discussion about using the O'Toole Building for a first aid clinic would be the first step in a back-door attempt to run through the Rudin Family's hundred million dollar luxury condo-conversion of St. Vincent's Hospital.

Shame on Mr. Hoylman and on Community Board 2 !

Brad Hoylman Open Meetings

Brad Hoylman, CB2 Call Police : Is this a Violation of Open Meetings ? (St. Vincent's)

On June 14, 2010, Brad Hoylman, as chair of Manhattan Community Board 2's Omnibus St. Vincent's Committee, presided over a public meeting to discuss a proposal for a first aid clinic to replace St. Vincent's Hospital. With no hospital now in the Lower West Side of Manhattan, everybody is concerned about healthcare.

After one senior citizen became upset, Community Board 2 called 911 and asked for police to come to the meeting. Was the call for police a way to intimidate senior citizens from asking healthcare questions ? In your comments, please discuss whether the calling of police was a violation of New York's open meetings law.

See also the longer video version of the way Brad Hoylman does things.

Brad Hoylman wants to turn St. Vincent's Hospital into Luxury Condos

Police officers show up at the end of this video. The St. Vincent's Omnibus Meeting at Community Board 2 was a complete disaster. Brad Hoylman, who acted like the chair of the meeting, asked for the cops to be called -- this was after an angry citizen gave the Community Board a piece of his mind.

Later, Mr. Hoylman created a circumstance of fear and intimidation in the room when he forcefully yanked the microphone out of Yetta Kurland's hands, before she was able to finish speaking. The whole audience community witnessed this brazen act, and it is now on YouTube for you to see, as well.

Community Board 2 will be an essential part of any land-use decision (aka "zoning") regarding the old St. Vincent's site.

Community Board 2 needs to hear from you that we will not accept anything less than a hospital for our community. Please send your e-mails to : info@cb2manhattan.org

After the sudden, shady bankruptcy and closing of St. Vincent's Hospital, local politicians initially proposed that an "urgent care center" could replace St. Vincent's Hospital. And that's exactly what Community Board 2 was trying to do last night, as it supported LIJ's push into the community to only provide primary healthcare through its "urgent care center."

Meanwhile, an "urgent care center" cannot meet the public health and safety needs of this community. It will not be able to offer level 1 trauma healthcare services, an emergency room, an intensive care unit, nor hospital beds. Nor would it support the complex web of health care this community depended on with St. Vincent's and needs. This includes but is not limited to pediatric, oncology, HIV/AIDS and birthing services. A hospital will also be able to bring income to our City and the State through Federal funding, and other sources, not available to an urgent care center.

For more information about other politicians, who have sold us out in favour of more and more luxury condominium development, please visit : Tom Duane Sold Out.

Last year, when Brad Hoylman intimidated citizens at the Community Board 2 meeting, I submitted a communication to the NY Department of State, Committee on Open Government in respect of the acts of intimidation used at this meeting. I never heard any reply ; what is more, my computer was attacked and destroyed by viruses.

Rudin Family Political Donations

In an apparent conflict of interest, Beth R. DeWoody, Madeleine R. Johnson, Eric C. Rudin, Jack Rudin, Katherine Rudin, and William C. Rudin each donated $4,950 to Christine Quinn's presumed 2013 mayoral campaign. During this time, the Rudin family has been trying to salvage a multi-million dollar real estate purchase of the buildings that belong to the bankruptcy estate of St. Vincent's Hospital. Since the Rudin family wants to build luxury high-rise condos on the site of St. Vincent's, do these large campaign donations explain why Speaker Quinn has done nothing to restore a hospital to the former St. Vincent's site ?

Jane Jacobs would save St. Vincent's Hospital. Why can't Brad Hoylman ?

For Stroke Victims, Every Minute Matters

Jim Fouratt exposes the dangers faced every single day by residents of the Lower West Side of Manhattan : in a healthcare emergency, every minute matters.

Elizabeth Adam, commuity organizer, senior advocate, and health care worker, suffered a stroke on April 1, 2011. Luckily, she was at work in Brooklyn and not at home on West 12th Street in Greenwich Village. At the time of her healthcare emergency, she was 8 minutes away from a hospital. Who knows how long it would have taken if she was at home, where there is now no full-service hospital. None of the 14 URGENT CARE CENTERS on the West Side could have saved her life. She need a full-service hospital. Community activist Jim Fouratt said that this is why we are fighting to get the Rudin Family to take back the O'Toole Building they bought, tear it down, and build their condos there -- so we can restore a full-service hospital with an emergency department and a Level 1 Trauma Center at the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital. This story has a happy ending ... this time.

Brad Hoylman is chair of the Omnibus St. Vincent's committee of Manhattan Community Board 2. Since the illegal closing of St. Vincent's, the community successfully pressured CB2 to pass a resolution that would prevent any change in zoning of the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital. But since then, Mr. Hoylman had done nothing to enforce that resolution, because he is bed with Deputy Mayor Christine Quinn and her rich developer friends. In fact, the Rudin Family, who want to tear down St. Vincent's in order to build more and more luxury condos, has donated approximately $30,000 in disclosed donations to Deputy Mayor Quinn's expected campaign to run for mayor in 2013.