Adi Talwar
A view of a boarded up building on the southeast corner of the Greenpoint Hospital complex from a parking lot in Cooper Park NYCHA housing in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Within a few months this fall, the city announced two separate plans to redevelop the abandoned Greenpoint Hospital site, and across the street, a parking lot owned by the city’s public housing authority—for a total around 750 new apartments within a two-block radius.
Three years ago, residents of the building in South Slope were glad to win the protection of the Loft Law. Now, living without cooking gas or heat, they say the city has let them down.
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