March 6, 2012

Today in the West Village, there was a public hearing for proposed plans to build a luxury apartment building where St Vincent's Hospital was boarded up almost two years ago - on those boards you may be able to read a poem written in familiar ink. The hospital is where Gregory Corso was born, and where Dylan Thomas died. St Vincent's employed 3,500 people and was the only full service hospital in the area. The posters and messages that were written in a public outcry for a vital community service were covered a week later with an american flag and signs that read, "the family of St Vincent will never forget 9/11/01"