Preserve Park Slope Files Online Petition Against Methodist Expansion

Preserve Park Slope's fight against the proposed massive expansion of New York Methodist Hospital continued as the group recently started an online petition on Change.org.

"Unless we act quickly and demand a revised plan that works in harmony with the surrounding blocks," the petition reads, "this mega-project will permanently and irrevocably alter the “pleasant, tree-lined streets and wide avenues containing houses of generally low height” that described the area in 1980 when the neighborhood was listed in the National Register of Historic Places."

Methodist filed its expansion plans with the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) last month. The Center for Community Health would be seven stories tall (152 feet above curb level) and would contain an ambulatory surgery center, endoscopy suite, NYM cancer center, diagnostic radiology services and more. Construction would also include over 1,000 parking spaces.

The community group has been against the massive expansion, which would include the demolition of 16 'architecturally desirable' and historical buildings. This would be the largest construction project to be undertaken in Park Slope since the area was declared a landmark district.

Click here for Preserve Park Slope's petition on Change.org, which is currently more than halfway to its goal of 200 signatures.