Real Estate Controversial Lenox Hill Hospital Development Plan Moves Forward The new hospital would rise as high as 436 feet over Lexington Avenue, and drastically modernize many parts of the medical center.
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UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — After more than five years of town halls and community board meetings, the New York City Department of City Planning has given Northwell’s Lenox Hill Hospital the green light to renovate the medical center and add extra stories to the building.
But exactly how much taller the building will be is still up in the air. The certification, announced on Monday, launched the mandatory public review process, which is the first step in finalizing construction plans. The public review is a roughly seven-month discussion period where city planners will present the proposed plans to the local community board and the borough president, followed by public hearings.
These boards and stakeholders will make their official recommendations to the city, and once the process is complete, the plan will go before the City Council for a vote. The project, a rehash of a scrapped 2020 expansion plan, will modernize and upgrade many parts of the hospital on East 77th Street between Lexington and Park avenues, which Northwell Health representatives said are far below current industry standards.
The new building, Northwell said, would upgrade operating rooms and emergency treatment facilities to modern industry standards, expand the emergency medicine capacity and convert all of its inpatient rooms to single-bed rooms. Currently, two-thirds of the hospital’s patient rooms are shared rooms.
Controversial Lenox Hill Hospital Development Plan Moves Forward
