Park Slope group starts petition against NY Methodist Hospital expansion
Public hearing November 21
A group called Preserve Park Slope has launched a petition on Change.org opposing the expansion of New York Methodist Hospital in Park Slope.
NY Methodist, located on Sixth Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, has proposed to demolish 16 buildings that it owns between 5th and 6th streets at 8th Avenue to build a nine-story outpatient care center.
Petitioners say the “mega-project” will alter the neighborhood’s historically small-scale character and remove “architecturally desirable buildings,” which include 82 occupied residential units. They also say the expansion will add “untold numbers of cars, ambulettes and commercial vehicles to already clogged streets.”