For Red Hook, Losing LICH Would Double Trip to ER

According to a new analysis of hospital access from Sandy-ravaged Red Hook released by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, this already under-served neighborhood could see the distance to the nearest emergency room double if Cobble Hill's Long Island College Hospital closes.

L.I.C.H. is roughly 1.5 miles from Red Hook. The next-closest hospitals are New York Methodist Hospital, 2 miles away in