Please link the Lo-Down for the latest on Rivington House.
“Department of Citywide Administration Services (DCAS) Last month, the city agency agreed to lift a deed restriction in place since 1992 requiring the Rivington Street building to be “limited in perpetuity to a Not-for-Profit Residential Health Care Facility.” The Allure Group paid the city $16,150,000 for the deed. Cathy Hansen, a spokesperson for DCAS said, “The deed restrictions were lifted after a request by the owner to allow the property to be run by for-profit and/or non-profit operators. The deed modifications were approved following a public hearing on June 24, 2015.”
A “public hearing” that no one knew about. Done on behalf of a corporation that did the same thing in Bed Sty. Bait and switch in order to get this goldmine of a public resource on the cheap?
Please read the article for more detail.
And please, let us not let this go by as just another crummy thing that we have to endure. This is going to cost us. It’s going to cost our elders and neighbors who will have no nearby nursing home to go to. And for some elders their need is imminent.
It’s going to increase pressure on lower income tenants and neighbors in the area.
Please write to the Mayor’s liaison and comment on the Lo-Down:
Tommy Lin
Director of Constituent Services
Mayor’s Office Community Affairs Unit
City Hall, Ny, NY 10007
The Lo-Down has our deepest gratitude for their investigative and factual reporting.