New York Methodist Hospital
This is the latest rendering for New York Methodist Hospital’s proposed outpatient facility.
New York Methodist Hospital is one step closer to winning the city variances it needs to build a massive new medical facility in the heart of residential Park Slope.
Park Slope’s Community Board 6 green-lit the Sixth St. hospital’s controversial plan for an eight-story, U-shaped outpatient center on Wednesday – voting 27 to 4 in favor of it, despite vigorous community opposition to the plan.
Community Board 6 chairman Daniel Kummer said that though he too was frustrated with the hospital’s latest public presentation for providing unsatisfactory answers, it shouldn’t be enough of a reason for the board to vote down the plan.
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“That frustration does not mean that we should, as many have urged…just throw up our hands and say no,” he said. “That would simply leave our neighborhood’s fate in the hands of the [city] Board of Standards and Appeals while offering no help to that agency in sorting out these issues.”
The community board approval on the proposed 150-foot-tall facility to be built on Fifth St., Eighth Ave. and a portion of Sixth St. comes with the laundry list of stipulations first put forth by the boards Landmarks and Land-Use committee at a meeting on Monday.
The board backs the plan under conditions that call for the scaling down of the structure, the creation of a construction task force, reducing the number of parking spaces in the garage by 189 spots and limiting building signage. The board also wants the hospital to stick to its latest design tweaks and to limit the Eighth Ave. entrance to employees and emergencies only.
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“We are committed to working closely with Community Board 6 as we move forward in the process,” said hospital spokeswoman Lyn Hill.
The hospital needs five zoning variances from the city Board of Standard and Appeals to build the facility — which falls into three different zoning districts — as planned. If it does not win the variances it needs it will build two separate buildings as-of-right, which will be higher and narrower.
The community board’s vote is only advisory. The city will ultimately decide whether to let the hospital build the proposed facility in the shape and size that it wants.
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Methodist plans to tear down a slew of hospital-owned properties — including several 19th century brownstones — and put up the proposed Center for Community Health in its place.
Opponents have blasted the proposed facility, saying it’s too big and that the 100,000 patients who would visit the center each year will clog the neighborhood’s tree-lined streets.
The new outpatient center, which will take three years to complete, will include a cancer center, a dozen surgical suites, patient recovery rooms and an urgent care facility.
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