NY Methodist Hospital and Preserve Park Slope reach agreement on new outpatient center
New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) and Preserve Park Slope (PPS) on Thursday announced the settlement of the litigation commenced by PPS, challenging the approval of the hospital’s Center for Community Health (CCH) by New York City’s Board of Standards and Appeals. NYM, PPS and the city’s Corporation Counsel entered into a settlement agreement which has been approved and ordered by Justice Alexander Hunter of the New York State Supreme Court. As a result of this settlement, the CCH, an outpatient care center, will be built on hospital-owned property by Fifth Street, Eighth Avenue and Sixth Street, directly across from the hospital’s existing inpatient buildings in Park Slope.
In the settlement agreement, NYM agreed to certain significant changes in the size and configuration of the CCH building, as well as to implement an operational traffic management plan developed by a mutually retained traffic expert. The goal of the plan will be to reduce the use of residential streets by vehicular traffic related to NYM’s facilities, to limit the impact of the building’s loading dock on neighbors and nearby schools, and to address on-street parking. The complete agreement can be viewed at http://www.nym.org/build or http://www.preserveparkslope.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Settlement-Agt-so-ordered.pdf.