Perpetual Protest Against Bill Rudin-SeeU at Salesoffice

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PERPETUAL PROTEST AND VIGIL WILL BEGIN
AT RUDIN LUXURY CONDO SALES OFFICE
ON ST. VINCENT’S HOSPITAL CAMPUS

Contact :   Louis Flores, 1-646-400-1168,  lflores22@gmail.com
 
New York, NY (Nov. 6, 2011) – On Monday, Nov. 7, at 9 am, activists from and allies of the group Hands Off St. Vincent’s will begin an on-going protest and vigil outside the Rudin Management Company’s sales office at 130 West 12th Street in the West Village.  This sustained action is intended to highlight the loss of St. Vincent’s Hospital and of our community’s need for a full-service hospital.
 
BEGINNING :  Monday, November 7, 9 am – 12 midnight
WHERE : Rudin sales office, 130 West 12th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues)
ENDING :  When the Rudin sales office closes, or a Request For Proposal for a replacement full-service hospital is Issued by the New York State Department of Health
 
Vigil participants shall take turns keeping the sustained action going, and the sustained action outside the Rudin sales office shall continue throughout the day and night, and resume at 9 a.m. the following day, and on each successive day.  This action will be on-going until such time as the Rudin Sales office closes, or at such time as when a Request For Proposal for a replacement hospital is issued by the New York State Department of Health.  
 
“People can’t get the emergency or comprehensive healthcare they need because there is now no hospital on the Lower West Side below 57th Street,” said Louis Flores.  “Luxury condos won’t treat a heart attack, and neither will the Lenox Hill Urgent Care Center.”
 
Community anger towards Rudin inspired the sustained protest and vigil.  Rudin, a billionaire development company, has ruthlessly ignored the community’s need for a full-service hospital.  Rudin paid pennies on the dollar to buy St. Vincent’s real estate, and Rudin now stands to sell luxury condos and townhouses that, once constructed, are expected to have a combined fair-market value of over $1 billion.  This sustained action will focus the public’s attention on the tarnished Rudin Family’s reputation and on its greed-driven luxury condo conversion plan.
 
Two months ago, The New York Post reported that the Manhattan District Attorney was investigating whether hospital executives intentionally let St. Vincent’s fail, so that the Rudin could buy the hospital’s real estate on the cheap.  See :  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/da_eyes_st_vinny_go_for_broke_plan_fvDtudcbAWyxqqiQnhbzaI  

For more information about Hands Off St. Vincent’s, please like our page on Facebook :  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hands-off-St-Vincents/156531864396467
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