A tale of two Brooklyn hospitals

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Dan Goldberg

An ongoing fight over the fate of Long Island College Hospital captured the attention of the city’s political press, but the social stakes are higher in the drama playing out over another beleaguered Brooklyn institution: Interfaith Medical Center.

LICH has had the benefit of a dramatic court battle and a more compelling narrative, furthered by the panicked rhetoric of the state entity that wants to get rid of it, a vocal and well-organized group of Cobble Hill-area community activists, and Bill de Blasio, whose arrest during a protest in July launched the hospital’s situation, and his underdog mayoral candidacy, onto the front page.

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