Astoria Life: New York Minutes

Musings from the Queen of Queens, or My 6 years of living in Queens and greater NYC, where I moved to work for the water department and ended up, among other things, traveling the world and appearing on a billboard on Times Square.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

St Vincent's no more

It turns out that St Vincent's Hospital, the 160-year-old institution founded by 4 nuns down in Greenwich Village, will soon close its doors due to its overwhelming $1 billion debt.

The hospital has treated Civil War veterans and 9/11 survivors. It also so successfully treated the uncle of poet Edna St Vincent Millay that her parents named her after it.

There are allegedly plans to turn the hospital into condos.

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