In 2015 a penthouse in the complex went for $21.1 million, according to the paper.

The politicians recalled the tragedy of the loss of St. Vincent's in their letter, stating, "we’ve seen this story before citywide, and Manhattan has suffered in particular with the shuttering of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village. After the closure of St. Vincent’s, hospitals across the borough experienced a sharp rise in visits."


Beth Israel is now the only large hospital in the Downtown area of Manhattan. Its leadership has proposed that a new hospital could be built nearby — similar to proposals concerning a replacement for St. Vincent's. “They [Mt. Sinai management] had said they were going to rebuild — and this is what we were told,” one of the sources told the Villager. “First, they said they were going to rebuild at the corner of 17th Street, where they own apartments. They said they were going to build by the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary — they also own that.”

The bottom line, sources claimed, is that the hospital is already downsizing. The NICU has been moved uptown. “They’re going to close [the hospital] in months,” one of the nurses told the paper. “They are taking the services that were thriving at Beth Israel and moving them uptown. They have cut doctors’ salaries here, and therefore pushed them out.”

The hospital system includes the Uptown Mt. Sinai location, as well as the Eye and Ear Infirmary, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, Mount Sinai West (formerly Roosevelt Hospital), Mount Sinai Brooklyn (formerly Kings Highway Hospital), and Mount Sinai Queens.

Mayor de Blasio had made the hospital closing issue a major piece of his campaign when he ran for the city's top office. A dozen hospitals shuttered during former Mayor Bloomberg's reign.

“We’re not going to accept the arguments that because it’s a challenging situation, we’re not going to get involved,” de Blasio said while running, according to the paper. “Mayors are supposed to get involved — that’s what we’re here for. This is the moment when we need to turn the corner.”

The Mount Sinai Health System remains circumspect about the fate of its Downtown facility. “Mount Sinai is committed to serving the community and offering the highest level of patient care. Leadership is currently discussing various options to accomplish these goals,” its spokesperson said in a statement given the paper.

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