Opponents of New York Methodist Hospital’s expansion plan fight back with alternate plan

Brooklyn

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 5:58 PM

New York Methodist Hospital This is the latest rendering for New York Methodist Hospital’s proposed outpatient facility.

Park Slopers who blasted New York Methodist Hospital’s expansion plans for being too colossal have devised their own ideas for how the hospital should be developed.

An alternate plan floated Tuesday would meld the expansion into the brownstone neighborhood, require fewer city variances to build and function as efficiently as the hospital’s proposed eight story, U-shaped medical facility, creators of the alternate plan claimed at a public city hearing.

“It reduces the entire bulk of the building,” said Bennett Kleinberg, president of the opposing neighborhood group Preserve Park Slope, which hired a team of area architects and city planners to come up with the alternate plans.

Under the substitute plan, which was presented before the Board of Standards and Appeals, about 45 feet of the hospital’s building would be shaved off and shifted onto an adjacent hospital-owned parking garage on Fifth St.

Preserve Park Slope A rendering of Preserve Park Slope’s alternate plan for the expansion of New York Methodist Hospital. The pink shaded portion indicates the bulk of the building that the group says should be shaved off and placed atop the adjacent parking garage, highlighted in blue in the foreground.

Hospital officials seeking five zoning variances to build the outpatient center told city commissioners that the alternate plan is full of holes and wouldn’t work.

The next Board of Standards and Appeals hearing on the matter is scheduled for April 29.

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