Brad Hoylman has been handpicked by Deputy Mayor Christine Quinn to run for City Council. As you may know, Hoylman, Quinn, and their cronies have sold out to the dark side of the Bloomberg administration, betraying progressive Democrats, their constituents, and they are strong advocates for bad development that closes hospitals, schools, and fire houses in a mass displacement of working families -- all in order to build more and more luxury condominiums.
Community Activist Yetta Kurland presented a stack of over 7,500 signatures on a petition to a representative of the Rudin development family. The petition demands that the Rudin Family must be blocked from undertaking a luxury condominium conversion of the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital. In her presentation, Ms. Kurland explained the history of a prior deal that gave the Rudin Family use of a hardship exemption, but, which Ms. Kurland said, no longer applies. As William Rudin salivates over the condo conversion deal, Jane Jacobs is turning in her grave.
Too bad we can't count on Brad Hoylman to fight for the healthcare of her own community.
Just Say No to St. Vincent's Luxury Condo Conversion !
Willaim (''Bill'') Rudin is the head of a billionaire real estate development family, and the family wants to take a wrecking ball to the former space of the only full-service hospital and Level 1 trauma center in the Lower West Side. The Rudin family wants to turn the former St. Vincent's Hospital into more luxury condos. Jane Jacobs is turning in her grave.
At the May 31, 2011 Manhattan CB2 meeting, residents of the Lower West Side overwhelmingly demanded that each of the North Shore-LIJ, Brad Hoylman, and CB2 open a hospital to replace St. Vincent's.
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.
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.
