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Save Beth Israel coalition holds ‘victory march’ after recent wins
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Chanting “Save Our Community Hospital!” activists with the Campaign to Save Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary braved...
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Police arrest suspect in brutal sucker-punch of young woman in Greenwich Village
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A 6th Precinct detective recently arrested a man accused of randomly punching a young woman in Greenwich Village — so hard...
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‘Blank ballot’ protest scores 15% in NYC in Dem presidential primary
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Showing the ongoing divide among Democrats over the Israel-Gaza conflict, 15 percent of the party's New York City voters submitted...
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Jose Pepe Flores, Loisaida raconteur and record collector, realizes his dream
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | For a number of years, Jose Pepe Flores, ethnomusicologist and record collector extraordinaire, dreamed about creating a Puerto Rican cultural center...
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Erik Bottcher unveils ‘fang-tastic’ rat-control plan
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | One of Erik Bottcher's top issues is sanitation, so perhaps it's not so surprising that he is proposing a groundbreaking...
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Activists: Beth Israel ‘warehousing’ hundreds of hospital beds amid corona crisis

Village activists Arthur Schwartz and Penny Mintz, outside Beth Israel on Thursday, said the hospital has hundreds of vacant beds that could be used to help treat a potential surge of coronavirus patients. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Activists: Beth Israel ‘warehousing’ hundreds of hospital beds amid corona crisis

March 19, 2020

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Sun., March 22, 10:15 p.m.: New York City is scrambling for hospital capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic. Governor Cuomo has…