Bill Rudin Protest Viral YouTube

St. Vincent's Hospital activist bird-dogs billionaire Bill Rudin over controversial luxury condo conversion plan.

Artist and political commentator Suzannah B. Troy confronts Bill Rudin on West 12th Street. Community anger towards Mr. Rudin has inspired many protests, including a sustained protest and vigil outside the sales office of the new luxury condos. Mr. Rudin has ruthlessly ignored the community’s need for a full-service hospital. Mr. Rudin paid pennies on the dollar to buy St. Vincent’s real estate, and Mr. Rudin now stands to sell luxury condos and townhouses that, once constructed, are expected to have a combined fair-market value of over $1 billion.

St. Vincent's Document Shredding

Bankruptcy Judge Cecelia Morris has let the management of St. Vincent's avoid Freedom of Information requests and has let the Rudin Family to gut St. Vincent's and is about to let the Family take a wrecking ball to it. Now, Judge Morris is going to let the Management and the Family destroy evidence.

Management of St. Vincent's Asks Bankruptcy Court to Approve Document Destruction, So That No Investigation Can Ever Determine Why the Hospital Closed Abruptly And Without Any Legally-Mandated Closure Plan.

No politician -- not CB2 Chair Brad Hoylman, not City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, or Senator Tom Duane -- is willing to do anything to prevent the luxury condo conversion of St. Vincent's. With the shredding trucks about to pull into the ambulance bays of St. Vincent's, the obstruction of justice will be complete : there may be no more hope to ever investigate the shady decisions that lead the hospital to close on April 30, 2010. It's exactly as Sarah Jessica Parker said : ''The community needs a hospital — and I think there’s been some clever obfuscation.''

1782-Motion Re Info Mgmt Services and Trust Ageement and Document Retention Plan

Duane St. Vincent's Hardship Exemption

Community Activist Yetta Kurland presented a stack of over 7,500 signatures on a petition to a representative of the Rudin development family. The petition demands that the Rudin Family must be blocked from undertaking a luxury condominium conversion of the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital. In her presentation, Ms. Kurland explained the history of a prior deal that gave the Rudin Family use of a hardship exemption, but, which Ms. Kurland said, no longer applies. As William Rudin salivates over the condo conversion deal, Jane Jacobs is turning in her grave.

Too bad we can't count on Tom Duane to fight for the healthcare of her own community.

Duane St. Vincent's Medical Malpractice

Eileen Dunn, R.N., tells residents of the Lower West Side of Manhattan that Mayor Michael Bloomberg put the ''knife to the chest'' of St. Vincent's Hospital, and that the mayor is responsible for blocking the restoration of a hospital to the Lower West Side.

Nurse Dunn also said that the municipal governments in Miami, Florida, and Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, either forbid ambulances from taking emergency patients to the kinds of first aid clinics that Lenox Hill plans to build at the O'Toole Building in the West Village, or forbid to license such first aid clinics altogether.

Too bad we can't count on Tom Duane to do the right thing -- and fight for a full-service hospital to replace St. Vincent's.

Sarah Jessica Parker : We hope that Tom Duane reads Sarah's Interview About the Need For a New Hospital in the West Village

Sarah Jessica Parker endorses a Full-Service Hospital to replace St. Vincent's.

In an interview with The Villager newspaper, Sarah Jessica Parker expressed her support for a full-service hospital to replace St. Vincent's.

''Asked what she thought of the latest post-St. Vincent’s proposal, for an emergency-care facility at the site of the former hospital’s O’Toole building, the Sex and the City star looked skeptical. 'I’m concerned, let’s put it that way,' she said. 'The community needs a hospital — and I think there’s been some clever obfuscation.' As a parent of three young children, she noted, she’s especially concerned about local healthcare. 'I would like to see a proper, functioning [hospital] — not a walk-in,' she stressed. She said she had spoken to Council Speaker Christine Quinn about the issue.''

The interview given by Ms. Parker took place before information came to light about a deceptive political campaign brochure, which was mailed to residents of the Lower West Side by a front group calling itself the ''Westside Healthcare Coalition.'' A WhoIs search on Network Solutions today showed that the website for the front group is registered to Mehigan, Bellone & Associates, Inc. Whereas Ms. Parker was not directly speaking to the example of the campaign brochure as political subterfuge, you can see how she has already been concerned with the pattern of clever obfuscation.

North Shore-LIJ have a vested interest in installing a first aid clinic in the O'Toole Building in the West Village, so that the Rudin Family can build luxury condominiums on the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital. Meanwhile, watch this video about what having a full-service hospital in the Lower West Side means to one parent, whose child was treated by the live-saving emergency room at St. Vincent's Hospital :

St. Vincent's 9/11 Tribute

I Will Wait For You -- St. Vincent's Hospital -- RIP 9-11 Tribute

Jane Jacobs would have saved St. Vincent's Hospital. Too bad Sen. Tom Duane couldn't.

Tom Duane Sold Out

Sen. Tom Duane - Shamed on St. Vincent's Hospital Closing

On 1 May 2011, activists organised a flashmob protest outside Brad Hoylman's apartment in Greenwich Village, NYC. Mr. Hoylman is chair of Manhattan Community Board 2's omnibus committee on St. Vincent's Hospital. On this day, Mr. Hoylman was hosting a networking brunch for Sen. Tom Duane. Each of Chairman Hoylman and the Hon. Senator have a role in restoring a full-service hospital to the Lower West Side. Watch as protesters speak to citizens, who don't even know the true fate of St. Vincent's Hospital, and who speculate about how could such a important public institution could be sold and bulldozed only to be turned into more and more glass and steel luxury condominiums. The opinions expressed during these sidewalk interviews were made by average citizen-voters, who are solely responsible for their content. Response videos are invited, to help create a dialogue for the community, so that citizen-voters can learn the whole truth about the ultimate fate for St. Vincent's. Video responses submitted by the Hon. Senator and the Rudin family are strongly encouraged, so that a balanced perspective can be offered.

Sen. Tom Duane was Booed at St. Vincent's Rally ; Flashmob Protest Follows Sen. Duane the Day After

Sen. Tom Duane - Shamed on St. Vincent's Hospital Closing

In 2010, Sen. Tom Duane said he, Assemblyman Dick Gottfriend, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and Rep. Jerry Nadler would restore a full-service hospital at the site of St. Vincent's. As of 2011, each of them has turned their back on us. Here is an exposé on Sen. Tom Duane. More to follow.

Nurse Eileen Dunn spoke at a rally for a new hospital on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at the site of the former St. Vincent's on the one year anniversary of the shady closing of St. Vincent's Hospital. The protest against Sen. Duane took place on Sunday, May 1, 2011, at 30 Fifth Avenue, outside of Brad Hoylman's apartment building. Mr. Hoylman is chair of Manhattan Community Board 2's omnibus committee on St. Vincent's. The 2010 flashback was recorded at a community forum that took place at Our Lady of Pompeii Church in the West Village.

Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn Were Booed at a rally for a hospital to replace St. Vincent's

Nurse Eileen Dunn worked for 25 years at St. Vincent's Hospital -- right up until the time that the hospital was closed after shady meetings between the hospital's management, politicians, potential buyers, and officials with the Department of Health.

In this video, which was recorded on 30 April 2011, at the one year anniversary of the hospital's closing, Nurse Dunn asked if the crowd was angry at Mayor Michael Bloomberg or New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for not doing a thing to help save a full service hospital for the Lower West Side in Manhattan.