Preserve Park Slope protests New York Methodist Hospital expansion plan

Some Park Slope residents aren't giving up the fight to stop a hospital expansion plan in the neighborhood. Members of the nonprofit community group Preserve Park Slope rallied outside New York Methodist

News 12 Staff

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Jun 11, 2014, 11:06 PM

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Updated 3,931 days ago

Some Park Slope residents aren't giving up the fight to stop a hospital expansion plan in the neighborhood.

Members of the nonprofit community group Preserve Park Slope rallied outside New York Methodist Hospital over its controversial plan to build a new facility on Eighth Avenue.

Officials say the building would include cancer and urgent care centers, but residents argue that it would destroy more than a dozen hospital-owned brownstones that are historic to the area.

The plan was approved by Community Board 6 back in January, but its opinion is only advisory and the city will have the final say.