New York Methodist Hospital needs to expand its Park Slope campus, and it plans to devour at least 15 buildings to make that happen. Hospital-owned buildings on Fifth and Sixth Streets and Eighth Avenue will be replaced with a 7-story U-shaped building that will "mesh nicely with its historic surroundings." Design details are still being hashed out, but it will not be glass and steel, and the hospital wants a zoning variance so it can be "broader and shorter rather than thinner and higher." Neighbors are concerned about construction noise, traffic, and how this will change the neighborhood (the area in question is not landmarked). They plan to fight the proposal, but the hospital says construction will begin in a year. [Brooklyn Paper; previously]
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