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The health care facility New York University is building as part of the redevelopment of Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill will have big, pedestrian-friendly windows on the ground floor and be “flush with its prewar neighbors,” NY YIMBY reported. The Langone Ambulatory Care Clinic will replace a decidedly less attractive (and taller) LICH building at 339 Hicks Street.

It will have a new address: 70 Atlantic Avenue. Perkins Eastman is designing.

It will contain limited 24-hour emergency room facilities (10 beds), outpatient surgery, a cancer center, and a diagnostic imaging center. The medical facility is the one required condition of the controversial sale and residential redevelopment of the LICH campus by Fortis.

NYU chose Skanska as the builder. (Skanska, you may recall, was embroiled in a set of two-way lawsuits with Forest City over the building of the modular tower, B2, at Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park.) The clinic is slated to debut in 2018.

What do you think of the look of it?

Revealed: NYU Langone’s LICH-Replacing Ambulatory Care Clinic [NYY]
Brownstoner LICH Coverage [Brownstoner]
Rendering by Perkins Eastman

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What's Your Take? Leave a Comment

  1. On the positive side, it appears to have an at-grade entrance vs the existing steps and ramp and fills in the corner nicely vs. the north facing ‘garden’ where almost no plants could grow. The facade is pretty banal compared to the handsome brick Fuller Building with its subtle setback windows. Too bad they didn’t make an attempt to salvage some of the brick. (Too much hand labor needed and too little incentive to keep construction debris out of the landfills). Let’s hope the facility will serve Red Hook as well as the brownstone communities.

  2. On the positive side, it appears to have an at-grade entrance vs the existing steps and ramp and fills in the corner nicely vs. the north facing ‘garden’ where almost no plants could grow. The facade is pretty banal compared to the handsome brick Fuller Building with its subtle setback windows. Too bad they didn’t make an attempt to salvage some of the brick. (Too much hand labor needed and too little incentive to keep construction debris out of the landfills). Let’s hope the facility will serve Red Hook as well as the brownstone communities.

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