What’s News Breaking: Monday, August 2, 2021
CO-NAMING HOSPITAL FOR LATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE GINSBURG: A new health care complex that NYC Health + Hospitals is building will also receive a new name. Currently known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island (and nicknamed as Coney Island Hospital), the redeveloped health care complex, expected to open next year, will be renamed NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health to reflect the comprehensive inpatient, surgical, outpatient and specialty services available on the campus and its essential role as the closest hospital to nearly 875,000 New Yorkers in that part of the borough. The new 11-story hospital building and the existing Tower building within the renovated campus will be jointly named after United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a figure who espoused truth, equality and justice.
The redevelopment, which will include an elevated Emergency Department, state-of-the-art operating rooms including robotic surgery, is part of a $922.7 million hospital campus renovation funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to demolish, replace and repair flood-damaged buildings from Superstorm Sandy.
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CALLING ON TEXAS EDUCATORS TO DEFUND PREDATORY LANDLORD: Brooklyn tenants living in a Park Slope building were among those set to receive a visit this weekend from Texas elected officials as part of City Council Member Brad Lander’s call to divest from a predatory corporate landlord. Texas State Board of Education Member Aicha Davis and Dallas City Council Member Casey Thomas will join Council Member Brad Lander to visit tenants in Park Slope facing eviction by Greenbrook Partners, in which the Texas Permanent School Fund (controlled by the Texas State Board of Education) invests. NW1/Greenbrook Partners, a predatory equity partnership that is accused of harassing, displacing, and neglecting tenants in dozens of multi-family buildings in Brooklyn, structures that are also under investigation by New York City’s housing and building departments for multiple violations.