Hundreds rally in Cobble Hill demanding ‘Save LICH!’
Elected officials, nurses and local residents chanting “Save LICH!” rallied in the freezing cold on Friday morning in front of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Protesters demanded that the State University of New York (SUNY) develop a plan to keep the hospital – teetering on the brink — open.
Calling LICH and SUNY Downstate’s other affiliates “vital to Brooklyn’s already-underserved residents” the officials said talk of closing was “unacceptable.”
Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblymember Joan Millman, Councilmembers Stephen Levin, representatives of BP Marty Markowitz and many others rallied the crowd of roughly 200.