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Yesterday the sale of the building that housed Victory Memorial Hospital, on the Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights border, was recorded in public records, and the price tag—$45 million—makes it one of the biggest commercial transactions in Brooklyn this year. The story behind the sale is a sad one: The hospital had been facing bankruptcy for a couple years now, and at the beginning of September it laid off 250 workers. A person who works at the facility said Victory officially closed down on Saturday and that half of the building is now being used as a nursing home and half is being operated by SUNY Downstate Medical Center. The deal for SUNY Downstate to take over the facility was reached last year, and a spokesman for the organization said they began taking over some of Victory’s operations last May. The buyers of the building are a firm called Rockaway Parkway Associates, who did not return calls for comment. Victory had been around for more than 100 years. GMAP P*Shark
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  1. The hospital portion of Victory closed over a year ago. They had been running the nursing home portion of the facility since then. I delivered my son there in Oct of 2007 and had a wonderful experience. Very sorry to see it gone…..

  2. If I remember correctly it was put on the market about two years ago and bought by Bistricer, who is the developer of the BellTel lofts in Metrotech. This all happened right before the crash though, so i imagine nothing’s gonna happen there for a while.

  3. Now I’d like to know what’s happening with another Dead Hospital Hulk: the abandoned shell of Caledonian, (absorbed by Brooklyn Hospital), a handsome structure with a fabulous parkside location on the southern edge of Prospect Park (west of Ocean Avenue). It seemed incredible that the city managed not to unload this property for a residential or institutional do-over at the height of the boom, and now it sits as an eyesore atop the somewhat gentrified/somewhat sketchy sector just west of the Parade Grounds/north of Church Avenue.