HORROR in Brooklyn Heights: Velazquez calls double whammy death of LICH, closing of libraries, ‘SCARY’
Rep. Nydia Velazquez told the Brooklyn Heights Association’s 103rd annual meeting on Monday that the planned closings of both Long Island College Hospital (LICH) and the Brooklyn Heights public library branch were “scary.”
“Long Island College Hospital and the library really stand for what the community is in need of,” Velazquez (D-Brooklyn Heights and Sunset Park) told about 250 people in the auditorium of St. Francis College on Remsen Street. “The fact that both are falling at once is scary.”
Velazquez offered a degree of comfort to those worried by the closing of LICH, saying that she and other elected officials had been promised by SUNY Chairman Carl McCall that a plan would be created to deal with the area’s health care needs.