NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital “tops out” expansion with final steel beam
The skeleton of a building loomed with its exposed beams at Eighth Avenue and Sixth Street in Park Slope. In front of the unfinished hospital center was a white steel beam that sat on red stilts, decorated with a small evergreen tree and an American flag at either end.
But it wasn’t there for long. On Wednesday, June 13, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital managerial staff, joined by Brooklyn community leaders, celebrated the “topping out” ceremony for the hospital’s new Center for Community Health with the placement of the final and highest beam preceded by a beam-signing and raising ceremony.
The six-story, 400,000-square-foot facility is the largest ambulatory care center in Brooklyn. The center will treat cancer, diabetes and hypertension, in addition to providing a wide range of other outpatient services.