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SUNY Downstate

SUNY announces outreach plan for Downstate’s future

February 8 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

EAST FLATBUSH — The State University of New York on Wednesday announced that it will launch a community-driven visioning process — in other words, an outreach program — to shape its proposed $300 million capital investment to re-envision SUNY Downstate hospital and medical school in East Flatbush.  SUNY plans an engagement process including community surveys […]

SUNY Downstate

Planned SUNY Downstate ‘transformation’: New beginning or downsizing for Brooklyn hospital?

January 24 | Raanan Geberer

EAST FLATBUSH — The State University of New York recently announced that Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed SUNY to come up “transformation plan” for chronically underfunded SUNY Downstate Medical center in East Flatbush that would secure “a sustainable future for Downstate for years to come.”  However, others, specifically unions representing Downstate staffers, have said that […]

Adams, city and state leaders,
break ground on Shirley Chisholm
Rec Center in East Flatbush

October 16 | Special from the Office of the Mayor

EAST FLATBUSH — A transformative new project in the heart of the district of Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, who happens to be the leader of Kings County’s Democratic Party, has brought honor and glory to some key names in Brooklyn’s history: the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and the late Dr. Roy Hastick. The dedication was a […]