Is Bill Rudin the second coming of Robert Moses ? Mr. Rudin is the head of a billionaire family, and the family wants to take a wrecking ball to the former space of the only full-service hospital and Level 1 trauma center in the Lower West Side. The Rudin family wants to turn the former St. Vincent's into more luxury condos. Jane Jacobs is turning in her grave.
At the May 31, 2011 Manhattan CB2 meeting, residents of the Lower West Side overwhelmingly demanded that each of the North Shore-LIJ, Brad Hoylman, and CB2 open a hospital to replace St. Vincent's.
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