StreetLevel: NY Methodist Infusing the Novo

why not just put in a dialysis clinic or a cab stand? oh, that's right -- they already have that... park avenue, huh?

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 2:33 PM

they do have doctors on park avenue you realize, 2:33.

having a doctors office, primarily to treat cancer patients is not the same as a cab stand.

you are extremely ignorant.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 2:34 PM

I always thought the building looked like a hospital anyway

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 2:45 PM

2:34 -- while i realize that doctor's offices do exist on park ave. -- do you realize that what is being placed in that space is not a private doctor's office, but rather, a medical facility -- i.e. a clinic.

and while i agree that a doctor's office is not the same as a cab stand, what you fail to recognize is that a clinic is not the same as a private physician's office... there is a difference that goes beyond mere semantics.

the point of the initial post was that 4th avenue will never be park avenue -- no matter how much the park slope adjacent contigent hopes and wishes. 4th avenue is at best -- gowanus east -- nothing more.

just a dose of reality. enjoy your day.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 2:52 PM

I love 4th Avenue. It's edgy, it's a little industrial, it's a little rough, it's got great new clubs and restaurants opening....it's everything everyone who complains that New York is over, represents.

The only person who ever called it Park Avenue was a developer. I don't think a single resident of Brooklyn believes or wishes 4th Avenue was the next Park Avenue.

It's absurd to even say so.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 2:57 PM

how is this a "potentially valuable medical facility for the community" when it already exists on 7th Ave, which is still "in the community?"

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:00 PM

it's moving from 7th to 4th, 3:00.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:01 PM

2:52: Your logic is a little off. This "clinic" already exists on 7th Avenue and there is nothing downtrodden about 7th Avenue.

So just because it moves to a more fringe Avenue, does not all the sudden lessen the importance of said "clinic" or turn it into something it seems you'd liken to a meth clinic.

I bet you never even knew it existed on 7th Avenue before this article. Right across from everyones precious Barnes and Noble.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:06 PM

While I think it is good to keep this in the community, and it surely provides a valuable service (more than, say, another nail salon), I'm not sure that it's going to help property values in the NOVO. It's important and good, but also somewhat depressing to have to walk by it every day.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:07 PM

When's the last time you walked by the Novo, 3:07.

I live in the neighborhood, and if I walk by this area more than 3 times a year, that's a lot.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:09 PM

Fits in with the whole nursing home vibe of the building.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:11 PM

A chemo infusion center is not a clinic! Who are you people? I am amazed at how heartless some people are.
My only hope is that all you "heartless"
people never have the need to visit this chemo infusion center. I am sure many really, really sick cancer patients will be pleased that they don't have to travel into Manhattan to get their chemo treatments. It is about time that Brooklyn has some reputable treatment centers for its sick. Since you all have nothing else constructive to do, why not educate yourselves on what a chemo infusion center is.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:13 PM

as one of the "heartless", i too hope i never have to visit this clinic. however, if i do, hopefully it will have been moved to carroll gardens or cobble hill -- or maybe even park avenue (the one in manhattan, that is).

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:18 PM

3:13 is correct. Sometimes you people are so self-righteous and self-absorbed, it's nauseating. But this one takes the cake. Are you for real? Sometimes I think you make ridiculous posts because either you are bored or you just have to say something for the sake of saying something. My father was treated at the Methodist chemo "clinic" ...a vital, necessary service in ANY community. For those of you who don't know, there ARE doctors' offices in that 7th Ave building, and they do take PRIVATE patients. I'm sure the "clinic" would have been housed within the hospital proper if there were adequate space for it so it wouldn't disturb your sensibilities. Just pray that you never need one. You people are pathetic.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:25 PM

"I'm not sure that it's going to help property values in the NOVO."

Given that 15 Central Park West's new retail tenant is Best Buy and the new Starck building at Grammery has a McDonalds on the ground floor, I really don't think it matters all that much.

Those are two of the most expensive buidlings in Manhattan.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:25 PM

3:09 -- the post says "I'm not sure that it's going to help property values in the NOVO." -- In the NOVO! If you live there, then you surely walk by it more than 3 times a year. Asshat.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:26 PM

Nothing like a stream of chemotherapy patients in your lobby to make your million dollar apartment feel all chic and cool.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:33 PM

2:57

I have advice:

"I love 4th Avenue. It's edgy, it's a little industrial, it's a little rough, it's got great new clubs and restaurants opening...."

Don';t talk like that. Yourbrokerspeak muist have gotten stuck in script mode.

If you use the word "edgy" in a sentence, you have no grasp of what "edgy" is.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:40 PM

3:33, different entrances. residential you enter from the back. nice try though.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:41 PM

So, does anybody know when Novo will be ready for move-in? It's been four years.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:43 PM

edgy is somehwere inbetween Bagdad and a field filled with flowers.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:46 PM

You people are idiots.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:49 PM

Do they do cash infusions?

Myt ARM just re-set to 12% and I think I need to see a doctor.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 3:59 PM

The cruel one said:

"hopefully it will have been moved to carroll gardens or cobble hill -- or maybe even park avenue"

All so someone extremely nauseated from chemo can take hours to get to their appointments? Or pay lots of money for a car service? Just so you don't have to look at them? Typical Sloper.

People get cancer everywhere, dummy. Even in Park Slope and South Slope. Those people will not want to go to other neighborhoods especially ones so lacking in decent transportation like Carroll Gardens. Secondly, the doctors who send their patients to this treatment center are at Methodist Hospital IN PARK SLOPE. Hi. Use your brain.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 4:42 PM

Novo will never open. Those who bought apartments there will set up a tent city on those two floors of the Argyle that have been abandoned.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 5:42 PM

Do you think they will silence the ambulence sirens at night so the residents of the Novo can get a good night's sleep?

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 5:54 PM

there will be no ambulance, 5:54.

learn the meaning of ambulatory care and get back to us.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 5:57 PM

Oh, they will just repair the ambulances at this site? Aren't there enough mechanics already on 4th ave?

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 6:00 PM

What about the hearses? Will they dim their lights on the way out at night?

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 6:03 PM

Why can't they double up with the dialysis clinic across the street?

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 6:04 PM

Standup MRI is moving from 5th Avenue into The Crest.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 6:30 PM

so fucked up to say that, denton.

you are a nasty soul.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 9:35 PM

never has so much been written about so little. And Denton deserves to get cancer.

Posted by: guest at March 12, 2008 10:12 PM

all i have to say is money money money its new yorks life blood for better or worse and yes i was born here and have lived in park slope since it was a neighborhood/disaster area during the 70's would be nice if comminities could have a clear forum with developers and comm board members etc. BEFORE THE DAMN THINGS ARE DONE maybe then we could avoid poorly planned comminities

Posted by: guest at April 9, 2008 4:46 PM