Sentences with phrase «mentsch lich»
I liken them to zombies who worship their Lich deity Jesus.
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Lich King heroic or some such.
LICH bidder Brisa disqualified as SUNY board puts off vote.
Ambulances return to LICH: A «game changer» de Blasio says.
But will LICH assets be protected locally?
In surprise vote, SUNY board puts off plan to turn LICH into condos and urgent care center.
Judge: Community groups get a seat at the table in LICH case.
SUNY board votes unanimously to close LICH; Williams says it's nobody's fault; local pol was «snookered» (Feb. 8):
«She won me over,» he said, lauding her work on gun control and other issues dear to his heart, including the eviction of seniors at the Prospect Park Residence assisted living home and the closure of Long Island College Hospital (LICH).
More LICH arrests in Brooklyn: Congresswoman Velázquez, District Leader Simon and others put in cuffs.
LICH supporters jubilant, vow to push for full service hospital:
Battle to save LICH plays out in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
The end of historic LICH in Brooklyn; Cobble Hill development to come:
Brooklyn State Representatives put «failsafe» LICH bills in place.
«The Governor has been a driving force against the community at LICH,» she said.
He wants to reform Albany, supports LICH and is against condos at the Heights Library branch and on Pier 6.
The State University of New York (SUNY) has repeatedly claimed it was forced to shut down Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Brooklyn and sell the property to a developer because the hospital was losing millions of dollars a month.
«The public did not want LICH (Long Island College Hospital) to close, but the developers do.
May Ng, a pharmacist for LICH, told the Brooklyn Eagle, «She's available, she believes in grassroots and she is running against Cuomo who destroyed our hospital.
Sikora told the Brooklyn Eagle that he intends to keep fighting for a full - service hospital at the LICH site, currently closed by SUNY in expectations of development by Fortis Property Group.
Levin also credited Sikora with coming up with the idea to get arrested to try to keep LICH open.
Sikora marched with other families in the LICH area in an early «stroller» campaign called Parents for LICH.
Hamilton said when the property values stared to rise in Central and Downtown Brooklyn, «all of a sudden» hospital real estate — like that at Long Island College Hospital (LICH)-- became desirable.
Simon, a constant presence at rallies and forums for LICH over the past two years, was arrested during an act of civil disobedience for the hospital.
«It's cruel to move emergency care and health care so far away from so many people, and what Gov. Cuomo has said is that the future doesn't have room for hospitals like LICH.
The 20 - building LICH campus is being sold by SUNY to a developer, Fortis Property Group, despite almost two years of litigation and protests.
The win was a vindication for Simon, who served as Democratic District Leader and State Committeewoman, with years of experience on local issues like Atlantic Yards, Long Island College Hospital (LICH) and the Gowanus Expressway.
The 52nd Assembly District, encompassing Brooklyn Heights, Gowanus and parts of Park Slope, is a hotbed of controversy this election season, with issues from the closing of Long Island College Hospital (LICH), to development battles in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Gowanus and Brooklyn Heights.
He spoke about fighting to keep Walmart out of the city and working to keep Long Island College Hospital (LICH) open.
Biviano called the initial exclusion from the debate «censorship,» and claims that he is «the only candidate talking about people dying at LICH Hospital because it was closed, the tearing down of our libraries, condos in the Park and the political deception and lobbyists behind these issues.»
Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham law professor challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the upcoming Sept. 9 primary, called for an investigation into the sale of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) during a press conference in Cobble Hill Saturday morning.
The district, encompassing Brooklyn Heights, Gowanus and parts of Park Slope, is a hotbed of controversy this election season, with issues ranging from the closing of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) to the sale of libraries and development battles in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Gowanus and Brooklyn Heights.
Cuomo took tens of thousands of dollars from people affiliated with Fortis [the developer who is buying LICH from the state], as we can tell, because we can't look at the PACs.
The 52nd Assembly District, encompassing Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Gowanus and Park Slope, is rocked with controversy this election season, with issues ranging from the closing of LICH to the sale of libraries and development battles in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Gowanus and Brooklyn Heights.
Teachout made a splash in Cobble Hill on Saturday when she called for an investigation into the sale of Long Island College Hospital (LICH), calling the state's sale of the hospital to a developer a case of «classic corruption.»
«I hope Ms. Teachout talks loud and clear about what was done to LICH and the communities it served,» she said.
While de Blasio is popular on his Park Slope home turf, his failure to follow through on his campaign promise to preserve Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill has caused deep - seated dissatisfaction in LICH's catchment area — which happens to overlap Assembly District 52.
Jeanie Segall, part of the skeleton crew remaining at the LICH clinic, said, «I'm so glad there's somebody out there who embodies and wants to support the values that the Democratic Party is supposed to value and support.»
«We've watched you allow your drones to mismanage over $ 100 million» at LICH,» she said.
Some former LICH patients said they also liked Teachout.
She has pointed to the closure of LICH as one of many cases of corruption in the Cuomo administration.
Dr. Jon Berall felt that Teachout and her running mate Tim Wu could bring LICH back.
Wyckoff Gardens is one of the six community litigants in the LICH legal battle.
«The closing of LICH and the process through which the sale happened — a sale where a health facility becomes a real estate development — is classic corruption,» she told a gathering of community members and health care workers.
De Blasio's endorsement of Sikora received the cold shoulder by some in the district, who felt the Mayor hadn't worked hard enough after his election to prevent LICH from being sold to a developer.
Teachout believes that several of her positions — including on the topics of affordable housing, Long Island College Hospital (LICH) and public education — should especially resonate with Brooklyn voters.
«Every leader in this state should be shouting about what Cuomo and his trustees did to LICH, how the community was railroaded, almost 2,000 New Yorkers were put out of work, and a vital medical facility was shut down to benefit wealthy real estate developers and other friends of the Governor,» said Julie Semente, long - time LICH nurse and member of the New York State Nurses Association's executive committee at LICH, speaking on her own behalf.
«We need LICH, and the job of the governor should be not to say all the reasons it doesn't work, but all the ways in it could work,» she said.
LICH was in Cobble Hill, and with the notable exception of Red Hook, the neighborhoods that surround that hospital are fairly well off.
Both LICH and Interfaith became magnets for «Shame on Cuomo» chants, and rallying cries for de Blasio, who was then running for mayor.