By Tara Kyle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A plan to bring a comprehensive medical facility as well as 300 apartments to the former St. Vincent's Hospital site will go before bankruptcy court for approval Thursday.
The $260 million real estate deal, announced last month, was brokered between St. Vincent's, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and Rudin Management Company, but it still requires approval from the bankrupt hospital's creditors.
If the proposal is approved, North Shore-LIJ will convert the O'Toole Building on Seventh Avenue into a medical complex containing a 24/7 emergency department, full-service imaging center and outpatient surgery facility.
The facility would not include overnight beds or the capacity to admit patients suffering from major trauma, heart attacks and strokes.
Other buildings on the old St. Vincent's campus would be developed into apartment complex.
Members of the Coalition for a New Village Hospital oppose the plan on the grounds that it does not restore a full service hospital to the site.
In September, Judge Cecelia Morris barred attorney Yetta Kurland, who represents the Coalition, from taking further formal actions in the bankruptcy court case. The Coalition is in the process of appealing that decision.
But Kurland did send a letter to the judge last month advising her of several concerns related to the possible approval of the sale, including the eviction of doctor's offices and an HIV clinic now on site.
The hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. at 1 Bowling Green.
