Cancer Center for Atlantic Avenue
A new cancer center opens today at 557 Atlantic Avenue between 3rd and 4th Avenues in Boerum Hill. As The Brooklyn Paper reported last week, the new Sloan Kettering facility has 12 treatment rooms along with a bunch of cutting-edge equipment. More than 15 percent of the Sloan Kettering’s patients live in Brooklyn. The center’s…
A new cancer center opens today at 557 Atlantic Avenue between 3rd and 4th Avenues in Boerum Hill. As The Brooklyn Paper reported last week, the new Sloan Kettering facility has 12 treatment rooms along with a bunch of cutting-edge equipment. More than 15 percent of the Sloan Kettering’s patients live in Brooklyn. The center’s storefront space will feature rotating exhibits by Brooklyn artists.
A New Cancer Center for Brooklyn [Brooklyn Paper]
people may not believe it, but Sloan Kettering’s arrival is equal to trader joe’s or barneys setting up shop on Atlantic. In fact from a strictly economic point of view, it’s more important because the jobs it creates are high quality. And I’m sure the support staff is ecstatic they can take the B41 to work instead of having to switch to a train to manhattan.
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Quote – “Obviously a plus for cancer patients and their families; not so much for real estate market; should this not be retail space?”
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Why don’t you think of it this way. Think of it as “retail” space for CANCER PATIENTS to purchase a chance at living!!
Are you serious??? As someone who has schlepped up to Sloan Kettering on a weekly basis *at least,* for what seemed like an eternity, I would have welcomed the opportunity to take my family member to a space in Brooklyn.. It would have been very close and maybe would have been less stressful, less expensive, etc., for someone with a life-threatening illness to endure.
BrooklynCouch, what would you like to see in this space?? An Urban Outfitters store?? How cold can you be??
Let us pray you will never need the services of Sloan Kettering, but let’s give the opportunity to get top of the line cancer services to those who unfortunately do.
And by the way- didn’t anyone tell you that medical institutions run just like a business, so therefore, they do turn a profit and they do pay rent, so who cares if it’s not “retail.”
Even better than that – the Eastern part of Boerum Hill had originally a lot of medical buildings. The German people who settled there in the mid-1800s set up a lot of hospital-related buildings. Brooklyn German Dispensary and the first Orthopedic Hospital in NYC and more were all within a few blocks of the major intersection of Atlantic & 4th. Then, and now, easy for patients to get to.
So the Cancer Center is contextual development! 😉 Win-win.
How can a cancer center be bad for a neighborhood? You’d think one could “catch” cancer by walking past it, or maybe it wafts out the door when someone enters. How mean spirited can you get? I guess all those hospitals on the east side of Manhattan have really depressed real estate values there too.
I used to work for someone who had bone marrow cancer. She didn’t live in Brooklyn, but she did have to go to a lot of sessions at the center affiliated with St. Vincent’s Hospital. It was time consuming, painful, and wiped her out completely. Fortunately for her, she was wealthy enough to have a driver waiting for her outside to take her to the UWS. She died in 2004. Point being, having a cancer treatment center close to someone’s home makes a awful trip a bit less awful. This is a good, central location for much of Brooklyn, and can only be seen as a good thing, if you ask me.
Given that Sloan-Kettering is one of the most advanced cancer centers in the COUNTRY, I can’t believe that there is anything but a positive reaction to their setting up new space in Brooklyn, closer to where some of the patients live.
BrooklynCouch…per usual your comment is disgusting.
I figured there would be a few more comments about how this was going to be bad for the neighborhood but I honestly didn’t think it would happen that quickly.
He’s an idiot, rob. First of all he apparently knows nothing about how suppyl & demand in a real estate market work. He was probably thinking about a nail salon or something.
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Obviously a plus for cancer patients and their families; not so much for real estate market
jesus christ. i guess it all does come down to the real estate market for some people. it’s a state of the art cancer center and your pining for a stupid whole foods or something?! thanks it’s not even 930 am and youve already successfully made me hate humanity today.
*rob*
What difference does it make??? If someone rents a space it’s off the market, simple. Supply drops, market is helped.