March for LICH draws chanting crowd to Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn
AG and Comptroller reviewing SUNY’s sale of hospital to developer
Many carried signs and some carried canes: A crowd of Brooklyn residents and officials marched down Atlantic Avenue on Sunday to rally for Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill.
NYPD’s 84th Precinct blocked intersections as the procession, organized by the advocacy group Patients for LICH, wound its way to Hicks Street for speeches outside the closed hospital.
LICH supporters have been fighting for almost two years to keep the hospital from being replaced with condos. Fortis Property Group’s bid won a convoluted and much contested RFP, issued by SUNY.
Marchers hope to catch the attention of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who must sign off on the deal before LICH can be officially sold.