Cobble Hill still awaiting answers from Fortis, NYU about LICH plans
Despite several meetings with NYU Langone Medical Center and City Hall, community groups in Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights say that they are still awaiting answers about Fortis Property Group’s plans for a new medical facility on the site of the former Long Island College Hospital (LICH).
After receiving what they call an inadequate response to questions raised at the meetings, the Cobble Hill Association (CHA) and Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA) fired off a letter to NYU Langone on Tuesday.
Their main concerns are traffic, transportation and parking issues at NYU Langone’s new medical facility, to be located at 339 Hicks St. (at Atlantic Avenue), along with a lack of information about the demolition and construction timeline and building plans for the new medical facility. They also pushed to see the full report of a traffic study recently completed by “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz.