GRAMERCY — Mount Sinai has hired a broker to sell off a part of its Beth Israel campus, just weeks after it announced plans to close the hospital, according to a spokesman.
Mount Sinai Health System has contracted Douglas Harmon, a broker for the firm Eastdil Secured, to sell Gilman Hall, a 24-story building at 353 E. 17th St. at the corner of First Avenue, which is currently being used to house students, the spokesman said.
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"Mount Sinai has contracted Eastdil Secured to begin evaluating and overseeing the sale of Gilman Hall, but no other buildings,” he said.
In May, Mount Sinai announced its plan to close Beth Israel over the course of four years, beginning with the opening of a much smaller hospital two blocks away on 14th Street and then dispersing the rest of Beth Israel’s services to create a new “Mount Sinai Downtown Network” of facilities and physicians’ offices.
Operations will continue at Beth Israel during that time, officials said.
Gilman Hall sits across the street from the sprawling Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village complexes, which Harmon helped sell for $5.45 billion last year.
Harmon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
