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[chris08876]

Lenox Hill Hospital to see a $2B renovation. Here’s what Northwell Health is planning

Lenox Hill Hospital owners Northwell Health think the Upper East Side site’s existing 10 buildings are just too old and too small.

They are expected to announce a $2 billion renovation package, that will include the creation of a 41-story, 200 unit residential building at the Park Avenue corner of the site, according to the Wall Street Journal. It is not yet known what developer will be tapped to work on the new residential building.

The current hospital site stretches an entire city block between Park and Lexington Avenue, at 76th to 77th streets. Some of the hospital’s facilities date back to the 1800s.

The planned renovation includes a 516 foot hospital room tower, new physician practice offices, and the potential demolition of three townhouses on the north side of 77th to create one new building.

Northwell Health will need to receive city and community approval for the project. City Council member Keith Powers, who represents the area, told the Journal that public consultation would be essential.

“It’s incredibly important that there is a lot of public participation in the plan and concerns for those who live in or around the hospital are addressed through the land-use process,” Powers said.

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1) https://www.wsj.com/articles/lenox-hill-...e-revamp-of-manhattan-campus-11552021260
2) TRD

[chris08876]

The overhaul would also create a 200-unit resi building on current site

Lenox Hill Hospital owners Northwell Health think the Upper East Side site’s existing 10 buildings are just too old and too small.

They are expected to announce a $2 billion renovation package, that will include the creation of a 41-story, 200 unit residential building at the Park Avenue corner of the site, according to the Wall Street Journal. It is not yet known what developer will be tapped to work on the new residential building.

The current hospital site stretches an entire city block between Park and Lexington Avenue, at 76th to 77th streets. Some of the hospital’s facilities date back to the 1800s.

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[chris08876]

Via Northwell Health: https://www.northwell.edu/news/lenox-hill-hospital-explores-major-revitalization-plans

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Plan includes private patient rooms, expanded ED, new surgical suites

To match investments it has made in recruiting nationally recognized physicians and expanding clinical programs, Lenox Hill Hospital today announced it is preparing a comprehensive renewal plan aimed at ensuring the future success of the storied acute-care facility on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

The goal is to create a new purpose-built Lenox Hill Hospital that will feature all single-bedded patient rooms, an expanded emergency department, new surgical suites and other larger clinical spaces. Plans also call for a new outpatient care center on Third Avenue between 76th and 77th Streets, improvements to the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital on E. 64th Street, and other ambulatory expansions in Manhattan.

As Northwell Health’s flagship hospital in Manhattan, Lenox Hill Hospital has delivered world-class clinical care since its founding in 1857 and currently treats more than 163,000 patients annually. However, several of its 10 buildings were erected more than a century ago and although Northwell Health has invested more than $200 million in capital improvements since Lenox Hill Hospital joined the 23-hospital health system in 2010 and continues to make upgrades, the buildings are not configured to deliver care efficiently and it’s increasingly inefficient to maintain the aging facility.

“Lenox Hill Hospital is one of the most storied institutions in Manhattan, serving communities throughout the city for more than 160 years,” said Michael Dowling, president and chief executive officer of Northwell Health. “This revitalization plan is the next step in ensuring Lenox Hill Hospital’s continued success and underscores Northwell Health’s commitment to meeting the health needs of New Yorkers for generations to come.”

To help finance the multi-billion-dollar project, hospital planners are looking at incorporating a new residential building -- a strategy that has served as a lifeline for many cherished New York not-for-profit health, educational, religious and cultural institutions.

[chris08876]

Renderings Revealed For Lenox Hill Hospital’s Two New Towers On The Upper East Side

Plans for a Lenox Hill Hospital expansion have been in the works for sometime now, and new renderings show a 41-story residential building on part of the hospital’s Upper East Side property. This 490-foot-tall condominium tower will sit on the corner of East 76th Street and Park Avenue and include about 200 units, while a second 30-story tower will be built on the opposite Park Avenue corner at East 77th Street. This structure will include a “mother-baby” hospital wing as well as operating rooms, patient rooms, and programable shared community spaces. The proposal calls for a total of 1.3 million square feet, up from the hospital’s current 780,000 square feet at 100 East 77th Street.

As reported in Westview News, the financial weight of overhauling Lenox Hill made the project nearly impossible to accomplish without “monetizing” part of the hospital’s real estate. The residential tower was added so “we could offset costs for rebuilding Lenox Hill,” said Michael Dowling, president and chief executive officer of Northwell Health.

The project has been broken up into three phases to allow for the continued operation of hospital facilities while the new development is constructed. It is unclear when construction will begin or when the expansion is expected to be completed.

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[chris08876]

Lenox Hill Hospital Plan Includes Park Avenue Condo

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 [email protected].

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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http://westviewnews.org/2019/06/lenox-hill-hospital-plan-includes-park-avenue-condo/

[chris08876]

Lenox Hill Hospital expansion blasted by Upper East Siders

Lenox Hill Hospital’s multibillion-dollar plan to redevelop its Upper East Side campus and convert part of the site into a market-rate condo tower hit a community roadblock Wednesday.

Concerned locals with Manhattan Community Board 8 overwhelmingly shot down the hospital’s preliminary plans to upzone a block bounded by Park and Lexington avenues, and 76th and 77th streets for an ambitious expansion that would include a 516-foot main hospital tower and a 490-foot residential building. The effort is a $2.5 billion hospital overhaul to improve services and patient amenities that would occur in stages over ten years—a construction timeline that is a tough pill to swallow for neighbors.

The undertaking would nearly double the hospital’s footprint—from 780,000 to 1.3 million square feet—and revamp Lenox Hill’s emergency department, create new surgical suites, and launch a new Mother-Baby Hospital with a separate entrance, among other additions. The new campus wouldn’t actually increase the hospital’s number of beds, but would instead upgrade all rooms for single-patient use.

Critics argue that the expansion prioritizes the hospital as a “medical tourism destination” over providing affordable health care, and call the towers out of character with the area.

“We certainly don’t need this monstrous development that is so out of scale with our neighborhood,” Andy Soussloff, who lives across the street from the current campus and is a member of the Committee to Protect Our Lenox Hill Neighborhood, which formed in opposition to the expansion, said at a Wednesday community board meeting.

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[NYguy]

https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/lenox-hill...ower-meant-to-pay-for-hospital-overhaul/

Lenox Hill may ditch apartment tower meant to pay for hospital overhaul



By Sam Raskin and Nolan Hicks
February 10, 2020

Northwell Health is looking to scrap its controversial plan to build a 41-story apartment tower on the Upper East Side — which drew fire from residential neighbors — that would have financed the overhaul of the historic Lenox Hill Hospital, The Post has learned.

The company’s developers floated the downsized proposal last week during a meeting with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Councilman Keith Powers and neighborhood representatives.

“We asked for this new plan [from Northwell] to see what you could come up with,” Powers said Monday.

“The concept I’m looking at is a hospital-first project,” he added.

Northwell’s Tuesday presentation to the group still calls for a new, roughly 500-foot tall hospital tower at 77th and Lexington Avenue to provide space for up to 450 hospital beds, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by The Post.

But the rest of the century-old 10-building complex — which stretches down the block to Park Avenue — would merely be renovated, and many of its shortcomings would remain, the presentation warned.

“I appreciate Northwell’s willingness to show myself and the community options that don’t include a massive residential tower,” Brewer said in a statement, “and I look forward to more discussions with them.”

The company had planned to build the 490-foot tall residential building to help finance the complete teardown and reconstruction of the Lenox Hill complex.

“We’d like to thank Borough President Brewer and Councilmember Powers for their ongoing and thoughtful leadership of the Lenox Hill Hospital task force,” said Northwell spokeswoman Barbara Osborn. “No decision has been made as we are still in the process of studying the implications to the overall revitalization goals.”

[NYguy]

Another massive hospital redevelopment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, currently undergoing approvals...

[NYguy]

[NYguy]

Love a good NIMBY showing. Comical.



https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-si...ll-hospital-expansion-pooh-poohed-locals

'Bedpan Alley': Lenox Hill Hospital Expansion Pooh-Poohed By Local
Critics rallied against Northwell's plans for a "Hudson Yards building"at Lenox Hill Hospital in a packed Wednesday night meeting.





Peter Senzamici
Sep 22, 2023

Plans for a new Upper East Side hospital building were pooh-poohed this week by a slew of locals who say the project isn't needed in "bedpan alley."

“We don’t need yet another hospital,” state Sen. Liz Krueger said at a packed meeting Wednesday to discuss the latest iteration of Northwell's plans to rebuild the aging Lenox Hill Hospital.

“How many communities — not just in other parts of the city and state, but even in other parts of Manhattan — are desperate for additional hospital access?"

Krueger was just one of nearly 400 people to attend a packed panel discussion organized by the Committee to Protect Our Lenox Hill Neighborhood Wednesday and moderated by former NY1 journalist Zack Fink, now the director of external affairs at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, a firm retained by the Committee.

The six-person panel voiced several concerns about Lenox Hill Hospital's plan to build a 436-foot-tall tower — which one neighbor called a "monstrosity from Mars"— on Lexington Avenue and East 77th Street over an 11-year span.

The main concerns: health equity, location, duration of the construction, and size.

Lenox Hill Hospital, owned by Northwell Health, says that major upgrades are needed to get the strange patchwork of aged buildings up to modern hospital standards, and is looking for a zoning variance on part of the block between East 76th and 77th streets facing Lexington Avenue to build the tower.

The new building would add over 600,000-square-feet to the hospital and rid the hospital of double-capacity patient rooms with all-new single capacity rooms, 25 additional hospital beds total, and state-of-the-art operating rooms and other medical facilities.

The Park Avenue facing building would remain intact and operational during the project, according to Northwell's plans.

While residents admitted Lenox Hill Hospital needed an upgrade, they argued the tower — which would have a floor plate size larger than the Empire State Building — would too big for the neighborhood.

“No one is saying the shabby, un-renovated Lenox Hill Hospital can stay the way it is,” said Stephanie Reckler.

“Yes, we want a better Lenox Hill Hospital,” Reckler said. “Not a bigger one.”

A Lenox Hill representative told Patch they were not invited to participate in Wednesday's town hall.

Meanwhile, Council Member Keith Powers, whose district includes the building site and arguably has the most power over the city’s sign-off, was described as “on the fence” by panelist Andy Gaspar.

Powers, who created a task force with then-Borough President Gale Brewer and helped facilitate about 10 meetings between residents and Northwell in 2019 and 2020, later told Patch that “meaningful reductions” have been achieved since the project was first proposed.

“Moving forward," Powers said, "we will continue negotiating for the best possible outcome for the community.”

Lenox Hill Hospital's plan to remain open during construction, which would stretch construction time to 11 years, was met with dread from locals who doubted they could stand more than a decade of noise and traffic.

Panelist Richard Scharf compared the project to the 93-story mega tower One Vanderbilt, which took just four years to build.

"It shows the extraordinary burden of keeping the hospital operational," Scharf said. "It's like changing tires on a moving car."

Gaspar, a panelist, venture capitalist and co-founder of the committee brought a personal complaint to the discussion: he lives across the street from the hospital.

"I get upset when Con-Ed digs up in front of my house for two weeks,” Gaspar said. “The idea of 11 years of going through a construction zone is just unthinkable.”

But Jacob Scheinerman, the chairman of the Cardiothoracic Surgery at Lenox Hill, told Patch the inconvenience to neighbors would also bring a marked improvement to patient care without disrupting surgeries.

Scheinerman noted he and his family also live in the neighborhood, and he said that when he worked at Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens, Northwell underwent a similar project there.

“I was there taking care of patients and commuting every day during the construction,” the doctor said.

“Honestly,” Scheinerman said of the finished product, “I think it's worth the inconvenience of the construction.”

Northwell, who faced intense blowback a few years ago from many of the same residents who gathered Wednesday, has since nixed a big residential tower on Park Avenue and lowered the total proposed hospital building height from 516 feet to 436 feet.

But the new plans include a girthier tower block.

“The Lexington tower got a little shorter,” said zoning and planning expert George Janes, “then it got a lot fatter.”

Janes described the “fat” size of the tower’s floor plates as more appropriate in a central business district, such as Hudson Yards, and are almost never seen in more residential areas like the Upper East Side.

At 400 feet up, the tower as proposed would have a floor plate larger than the Empire State Building and nearly as large as mega Midtown and Hudson Yards towers like One Bryant Park, 10 Hudson Yards and One Vanderbilt, according to a diagram made by Janes based on the current Northwell proposal.

Reckler, vice president of opposition group Committee to Protect Our Lenox Hill Neighborhood, argued Northwell should renovate and modernize from within.

"Bring it up to state-of-the-art hospital standards and technology to accommodate new trends in healthcare," Reckler urged. "Do it all in a reasonable period of time with minimal disruption to our neighborhood."

“We are up against the largest employer in New York State,” Reckler said.

“We were successful in 2019,” Reckler said, “And we will be successful again.”

[MAC123]

It's literally a hospital building. These people are insane. It's a building that will be dedicated to the continued health of the city and they're fighting against it.

[Hudson11]

amazing how nobody in these meetings ever seem to be under the retirement age.

[NYguy]

Sad to say, but probably most in that meeting probably wouldn’t be around after the 11 years it would take to build. I think it’s the fight against something big they enjoy. (They could otherwise be enjoying retirement somewhere.) They got a height cut, but with that comes more girth.

[Innsertnamehere]

Opposing literally lifesaving medical facilities - NIMBYISM knows no bounds..

[Busy Bee]

"Resistance is a force that gives us meaning"

-The UES NIMBY mantra

[HyperPower]

Lenox Hill, that's ole Money on the UES. Can only play golf and visit your Florida beach house so often, the only thing they have left to do is piss off devs in their neighborhood. Cheeky fellows

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

"Resistance is a force that gives us meaning"

-The UES NIMBY mantra

Perfect. And they all want to speak to the manager.

...Lenox Hill Hospital's plan to build a 436-foot-tall tower — which one neighbor called a "monstrosity from Mars"

That famous, bulky Mars architecture.

[mrnyc]

well geez — a squat behemoth serves them right.

speaking of hospitals, one time when i was a kid i had bronchitis and had a hospital stay. i remember there was a doctor named dr. doctors and they would say, “paging dr. doctors, dr. doctors” over the p.a. all the time and crack me up and get me like all wheezing again.

[jbermingham123]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

well geez — a squat behemoth serves them right.

speaking of hospitals, one time when i was a kid i had bronchitis and had a hospital stay. i remember there was a doctor named dr. doctors and they would say, “paging dr. doctors, dr. doctors” over the p.a. all the time and crack me up and get me like all wheezing again.

Always funny when that happens. Reminds me when I was a kid and my parents were watching a PBS newshour interview about an archaelogical discovery somewhere and the archaeologist's name was... Clay Sanders. I was 7 and could not stop laughing

[NYguy]