by Geoff Cobb 
In a city critically short of both affordable housing and homeless shelters, the long-abandoned former Greenpoint hospital can help alleviate both severe shortages in North Brooklyn. Over a year ago, plans were finalized for the conversion of the site and soon the former hospital will serve the public in these critical areas. The Greenpoint Hospital served the community for 70 years and many locals were born in the…
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They I always doing something for the homeless but they never get to it I’m a very sick person without an apartment for the past three years even the shelter the one to take me because of my illness so I’m from house to house so many promises and nothing done I could not afford to pay her rent with just a disability check let’s see what happens with this thank you for your time which I know nothing’s going to happen.
With the upsurge of new residences into our community, yet another historic hospital will be closed. This makes no sense and poor city planning. We need professional vocational high schools not another city housing project like the ones that have polluted our boroughs since the 1950s. The city projects have consistently devastated our educational system and our quality of life. Now we will be surrounded by homeless shelters, assessment centers and halfway houses. I cannot believe that the tax payers of our community are not outraged. What role did our Councilman Stephen Levin play in this new fiasco for Greenpoint?
The hospital closed almost 40 years ago. The homeless shelter has already been operating there for years. Other than the shelter, the site has been mostly vacant and underutilized for decades. This project reuses the old buildings (and builds new ones) to add affordable housing and senior housing.
And this is not Steve Levin’s district.
The hospital was closed in the eighties.