Six Prominent Brooklyn Civic Groups Join deBlasio Lawsuit against SUNY

According to a media release today from New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, six prominent Brooklyn civic organizations have joined his State Supreme Court lawsuit seeking to keep hospital operator SUNY Downstate from closing Cobble Hill's Long Island College Hospital.

Now co-plaintiffs in the lawsuit are:

The Boerum Hill Association;
Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association;

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Albanese: deBlasio Jumped the Shark at LICH Protest

In a press release today, Democratic mayoral candidate Sal Albanese, responding to the news that rival Democrat Bill deBlasio had staged a protest action with Long Island University Hospital staff at the offices of hospital operator SUNY Downstate, questioned his rival's commitment to saving the critically-endangered LICH.

DeBlasio, in a statement today, joined Albanese in calling on Governor

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Chaos at LICH

As NY 1 reported yesterday, hospital operator SUNY
Downstate, violating a temporary restraining order issued in April by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Johnny Lee Baynes, is turning ambulances away and moving patients out of critical care units at Downtown Brooklyn's embattled Long Island College
Hospital.

According to NY 1 sources, two dozen doctors and other essential medical staff have

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