Stroller March to Save LICH Thursday!

CG CORD Newsletter 6/9/2013    Blog:  www.carrollgardenspetition.blogspot.com Email:  cgcord@gmail.com   The message below is from our good friend and LICH-supporter, Cobble Hill Association President ROY SLOANE. Please join the march Thursday:  tonight!!!   CORD -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Stroller March to Save LICH - Part Trois! From: Roy Sloane CC:   Stroller March to Save LICH - Part Trois!  Thursday!!  Governor Cuomo is failing our neighborhoods - so we're taking it up a notch.   With SUNY refusing to accept ambulances at the fully-staffed LICH ER, Methodist  and Downtown Hospital ER's wait times are as long as 48 hours.  And SUNY just  shut down overnight pediatric care at LICH, so when kids tend to get sick, they  can't get proper care.  Meanwhile, developers are circling the property, waiting  to get their hands on the real estate.  It's time to send Governor Cuomo a message loud and clear: we need hospitals -  not condos.  Our health, emergency care, and 2,000 jobs are at stake.  Please join us for Parents for LICH's biggest protest yet: We will rally at the  LICH playground from 5:30 to 6ish, then hold our signs and raise our voices as  we march to the Brooklyn Bridge (Adams and Tillary Streets).      At the Brooklyn Bridge, we will rally up on the big sidewalk near the entrance  to the bridge.  We will be done at 6:45.  This event is kid and  stroller-friendly.  Elected officials will join also us, as will nurses, doctors  and other health care workers from LICH.    Governor Cuomo is making a political decision: go with the community, or go with  real estate developers.  We all know LICH needs to be restructured with better  management.  But to close it down to build more condos is outrageous.  We need  to up the pressure on the Governor so he stops closing our neighborhood  hospital.    The unions are also upping the pressure, with 2 rallies next week.  The first is  Monday afternoon from 4-6pm outside the Governor's office at 633 Third Avenue in  Manhattan.  On Wednesday, they will rally at SUNY at 10amand deliver petition  signatures to SUNY Chancellor Zimpher.  The SUNY building is at 33 West 42nd  Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues).  Please come out to these rally's too if  you can!  Again, our Toddler Speak-out and Stroller March to Save LICH will be this  Thursday the 11th at the LICH playground (Henry St between Amity and Pacific  Streets), rallying from 5:30 to about 6:00, then march to the Brooklyn Bridge.   Thank you.