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Lenox Hill Hospital Plan Includes Park Avenue Condo

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Plans call for larger service departments, only single-bed patient rooms, more beds than before, state-of-the-art equipment and technology while providing flexibility for future technology advancements, and more operating rooms. They will also establish a dedicated “mother-baby” hospital wing to accommodate mothers and family members in an elegant private setting with its own separate entrance on Park Avenue. Plans also include shared programmable community spaces. In total there will be 1.3 million square feet, up from 780,000 square feet including the 30-story tower.

Joshua Strugatz, vice president of Northwell’s Manhattan Redevelopment, was appointed as the hospital’s liaison to field questions and provide updates to the community; email renewinglenox@northwell.edu.

Northwell has established nearly 80 outpatient facilities in Manhattan since 2010. This financial investment would be difficult to achieve without “monetizing” a portion of the hospital’s valuable real estate. Therefore, a 41-story residential building on the Park Avenue corner, with about 200 units, was added so “we could offset costs for rebuilding Lenox Hill,” said Dowling. The costs and returns from the condos have not yet been established; it is totally separate from the hospital buildings.

Every planning decision mentioned here is highly regulated by government agencies, including having to justify any change based on community needs. It will take many more months to wind their way through many bureaucracies at state and local levels. You can contact Northwell directly with your comments.

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