News had been trickling in regarding the possibility of the sell-off of the health care facility at 45 Rivington Street.
Today thanks to the Lo-Down’s reporting we have confirmation of two transactions.
This community worked hard, went to meetings and lobbied for the protection of this building to remain in perpetuity a low-income health care facility.
AIDs patients were summarily removed in the last ‘sale’ and scattered to the winds (much like Bialystoker and Cabrini nursing home residents). The aging community here were hoping for a nursing home they could afford with visits from neighbors and family in their own neighborhood.
I’m sure they would all be thrilled with the possibility of rich people getting to enjoy a view that poor people built for them in the community garden opposite.