Photo Credit: Lady Bunny Blog
St. Vincent's Hospital - the 160-year-old institution that treated Titanic survivors and bore the early brunt of NYC's AIDS epidemic - closed their doors for good last week. This leaves the West Side of downtown Manhattan with no hospital, and many residents are heartbroken.
The emergency room ambulance bays have been covered with plywood, where people have been spontaneously leaving messages and lighting candles in loving memory of St. Vincent's. I actually entered the emergency room through this ambulance bay one evening with my elderly friend Bill - he died at the hospital a few days later of lung disease. St. Vincent's was the last place I ever saw him.
It is widely assumed that the the people overseeing St. Vincent's assets will sell the prime Greenwich Village real estate to developers, who will no doubt build luxury condos for rich people. Just what this town needs...
Source: Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
