This in from City Council Member Steve Levin’s office: On Monday, September 30th, the City Council’s Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations will hold an oversight hearing on capital construction needs and the potential disposal of libraries in New York City. While this hearing is not exclusive to the proposals for Brooklyn […]
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#SaveLICH Flash: Justice Demarest Orders Ambulances Back
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports that New York Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Demarest has ordered the restoration of ambulance service to Long Island College Hospital, along with a re-opening of LICH’s Intensive Care Unit. Ambulance and emergency services must be restored by 3:00 p.m. this coming Monday, August 26. Justice Demarest has scheduled another hearing […]
Congregation B’nai Avraham Awarded “Sacred Sites” Grant
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports that Congregation B’nai Avraham, 117 Remsen Street (between Clinton and Henry), Brooklyn Heights’ only Orthodox synagogue, has been awarded a $10,000 “Sacred Sites” grant by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. The funds will be used to assist in restoration of the facade of the 1850s vintage brownstone faced Italiante style […]
#SaveLICH: Millman and de Blasio Intervene to Get Sick Infant Admitted; AG Investigating Disappearance of 81 Year Old with Dementia
Update: LICH still open; another court hearing Wednesday (NY1); another #SaveLICH rally tomorrow (Sunday, July 28) at noon across from the main entrance at 339 Hicks Street. According to State Assembly Member Joan Millman’s office, administrators at Long Island College Hospital tried to deny treatment to a sick eleven month old infant who had been […]
#SaveLICH: Doctors Say SUNY Wants LICH Emptied Today; de Blasio Asks Court for New TRO
Update: We now have word that the state Department of Health has approved SUNY’s application to close LICH. See the official letter here.
BHA Urges Maintenance Work on BQE
According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle the Brooklyn Heights Association has urged the City Department of Transportation, which is responsible for routine maintenance of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, to mill the roadway and replace asphalt and concrete, as necessary, on the cantilevered portion of the BQE that runs below Brooklyn Heights. A letter to DOT Commissioner […]
#SaveLICH: Millman Co-sponsors “Fail Safe” Bill to Keep “Downsized” LICH Open
According to Mary Frost’s Eagle story, bills have been introduced in the New York State Senate and Assembly that would assure the survival of a “downsized” Long Island College Hospital should SUNY Downstate Medical Center succeed in its plan to sell LICH. One of the sponsors of the Assembly bill, which is identical to the […]
#SaveLICH: Judge Orders SUNY Lawyers Back Tomorrow
The Eagle’s Mary Frost reports that sources present at today’s meeting, closed to the press, between Judge Johnny Lee Baynes, who had earlier issued an order for SUNY to restore full staff levels at LICH, told her that Judge Baynes has ordered LICH and State Health Department lawyers back tomorrow (Tuesday, June 25) “regarding their […]
Encouraging News on the #SaveLICH Front
Today the City Council passed a resolution (approved by its Health Committee yesterday) that, according to the Eagle, “calls on the State University of New York and the State Department of Health to work with stakeholders to find a new owner for [Long Island College Hospital] the 150-year old Cobble Hill institution.” While the resolution […]
Brooklyn Heights Resident Julie Sarkissian Celebrates Publication of First Novel
As reported by the Eagle, neighborhood resident Julie Sarkissian will celebrate the publication of her first novel, Dear Lucy, tomorrow (Tuesday, April 23) evening at BookCourt, 163 Court Street, starting at 7:00. According to the store’s website, the “Docket” includes: “Release Party”; “Reading”; “Audience Q&A”; “Book Signing”; “Live Music”; and “Food & Drinks Served.”
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