A meeting is scheduled on Thursday, August 6th at 6:30 pm at the Lady of Lourdes School (Gymnasium) to update community residents and to introduce the legal team for a lawsuit filed last week against the City of New York over its approval of a development at 1727 Amsterdam Ave. that would demolish a 60,000-sq-ft health center serving 10,000 low-income, Medicaid, and uninsured patients (37,000 visits last year). One of the two clinics on-site — Heritage, a federally qualified health center — would be permanently removed; the other cut to roughly a third of its space.
Three state legislators — Sen. Cordell Cleare and Assembly Members Al Taylor and Jordan Wright — have joined community members as plaintiffs. The suit says the City skipped a full environmental review and ignored a Community Board 9 plan that would keep the health center and build more deeply affordable housing (468 → 1,127 residents), aimed at what people in the neighborhood actually earn.
The decisions made in the coming weeks could have a lasting impact on our neighborhood, and a strong community turnout will demonstrate that residents care about shaping the future of Hamilton Heights.Please join us—and help spread the word. Invite your neighbors, friends, family members, local businesses, and anyone who lives or works in Hamilton Heights and Community District 9. Every voice matters. Every person in the room strengthens our collective message.
Please let us know you will attend and how you can help to win this fight bring measurable impacts to the neighborhood. Register here. (name and address).