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NYU Langone Bringing Outpatient Surgery Center to Essex Crossing

By Allegra Hobbs | March 23, 2017 3:04pm
 Essex Crossing's sixth site will be located at 175 Delancey St.
Essex Crossing's sixth site will be located at 175 Delancey St.
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LOWER EAST SIDE — NYU Langone Medical Center has unveiled details of a $32.9 million, 55,000-square-foot medical center to open at an Essex Crossing mega-development site in late 2018.

The Joan H. and Preston Robert Tisch Center will include an ambulatory surgery center with four operating rooms, two of which will be dedicated to orthopedic surgeries and two of which will be dedicated to procedures including ear, nose and throat surgeries as well as endoscopies and gynecological surgery, according to an application submitted to the state Department of Health. 

The center at 175 Delancey St. will also hold space for physical therapy services, according to the application.

The center will help accommodate overflow from the hospital network's crowded Center for Musculoskeletal Care on 38th Street and NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases on 17th Street, the application says, and will provide extra room for much-needed physical therapy services.

The center will also bring services used by Lower East Side locals into the neighborhood. Residents of Community District 3, which comprises of the Lower East Side, East Village and Chinatown, made up more than 9,600 of physical therapy visits to the center's various locations, and much of those visits could be transferred to the Delancey Street location upon opening.

The medical center will take up space in the cellar and first two floors of the 14-story mixed-use building from Delancey Street Associates, which will hold 100 units of below-market-rate housing for seniors earning between $24,200 and $54,400 for single households.  

Local organization Grand Street Settlement will run a senior community center out of the building, as well as a job training center and a cafe.

The building is one of mega project Essex Crossing's nine sites, which will altogether bring 1,078 new units — 561 of which will be below-market-rate — to the neighborhood by 2024.

NYU Langone first announced plans to open a medical center at the site in Jan. 2016. News of the DHS application was first reported by Crain's.