Now that the deal is under investigation, Mayor Bill de Blasio is changing his tune on his “historic” rescue of Long Island College Hospital.
The mayor said Monday he did the best he could with the shuttered Brooklyn hospital in the face of “economic realities.”
“The more we looked into what could be achieved and how would the actual economic realities work and the financing work — the specific health care site that’s there now is the thing that we came to believe was realistic and viable and sustainable for the long term,” de Blasio said Monday.
But in February 2014, de Blasio was effusive in his praise for a court decision that paved the way for medical services to be a priority at the site — but that didn’t guarantee them — calling it “a truly historic moment, a transcendent moment for health care in New York City.”
Meanwhile, Comptroller Scott Stringer issued a report on the scandalous Rivington House nursing home deal, reporting that 40 administration officials were involved in disposing of the property — but somehow the mayor never knew the property might become luxury condos.