Bellevue Hospital Center

City Seeks Hotel for Former Psych Hospital

The city’s Economic Development Corporation is seeking bidders to turn the Bellevue Psychiatric Building on the East Side into a hotel. Developers could potentially add on to the 400,000-square-foot, nine-story building at 492 First Avenue, which was built in 1931. (Also see our previous coverage on this.)  read more »

Schumer at Bellevue

hospital%20family%20pic From Chuck Schumer's statement at Bellevue Hospital on the president's health care spending cuts:

"The President's budget will effectively cut the core out of the Big Apple."

Pictured above is a statue, strategically positioned behind the podium, entitled, "The Family."

-- Azi Paybarah