Councilman Carlos Menchaca led a successful effort to defeat a proposed zoning change in May after hearing the community’s concerns about the relocation of a nursing home to Red Hook. The nursing home’s supporters included some of the largest development lobbyists in the city. The Oxford Nursing Home is a for-profit healthcare facility located in Fort Greene. In 2003, they […]
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Eric Adams rules on nursing home by George Fiala
The continuing saga of the attempt to build a nursing home in Red Hook continued last month, as the Borough President Eric Adams’ office published their opinion, and the City Planning Commission (CPC) held their public hearing. The next and presumably last step comes up next, as the City Council takes up Oxford Nursing Home’s application for a zoning change […]
Borough President joins CB6 for a Red Hook Screw, commentary by George Fiala
On Tuesday, December 22 at 6 pm at Brooklyn Borough Hall, the application to rezone part of Red Hook to allow an 8 story nursing home to be build in a flood zone will be the subject of a public hearing. There is so much wrong with the above sentence that my head is exploding. I couldn’t sleep most of […]
Reporters Notebook – CB6 and the Oxford Nursing Home Saga, by George Fiala
A week has gone by and I still can’t figure out what happened at the December General Board meeting of Community Board 6. The week prior, the board’s Land Use committee met at PS 27, in Red Hook, in close proximity to the Red Hook East Houses, to discuss the possibility of approving an 8 story nursing home by Conover Street […]
CB 6 reverses committee decision on nursing home, by George Fiala
In a meeting of the full board at Brooklyn Borough Hall, Community Board 6 reversed the decision of its Land Use committee and voted to favor the zoning application of the Oxford Nursing Home to build an 8 story nursing home in the middle of Red Hook. Victoria Hagman’s committee motion to deny approval of the proposed zoning change, which […]
Opinion: Trains and boats and Nursing Homes, by George Fiala
Our Councilmember Carlos Menchaca made the news today as his office plans to draft a bill banning all tourist helicopter flights from NYC. This is an issue that has a small but noisy constituency, mainly the people in Battery Park City, Brooklyn Heights and Red Hook that are directly affected by the noise of the helicopters. The copters offer a birds-eye view […]