Sen. Montgomery breaks with other Brooklyn pols, drops support for LICH
PA James, representatives send scathing letters to SUNY's McCall
Three days after standing with a half-dozen other federal and state officials in Brooklyn “against SUNY’s latest attempt to turn LICH into a luxury condo deal,” state Senator Velmanette Montgomery (D-25) broke with the group on Friday and sent SUNY Chairman H. Carl McCall a letter endorsing the Brooklyn Hospital Center’s proposal to build apartments at the Long Island College Hospital site and “redesign the Long Island College Hospital health delivery system.”
“This is an opportunity to stabilize the delivery of health care services in Brooklyn and move forward towards a future network of locally delivered community health,” Sen. Montgomery, who represents areas served by SUNY Downstate and Brooklyn Hospital, said in her letter. “It will also save SUNY Downstate, one of the great teaching and medical institutions in the country.” (Sen. Montgomery’s entire letter follows below.)