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BY KEVIN DUGGAN
They’re ready to build
this wall — and a new
tower, too!
Contractors are laying
the foundations for
a new fl ood wall and 10-
story tower at Coney Island
Hospital, as part of
an ongoing expansion of
the medical center that
will take roughly fi ve
years to complete, the
builders told residents at
a recent meeting about
the project.
The four-foot wall rising
around the perimeter
of the city hospital’s
existing Sheepshead Bay
campus will go a long
way to protect the facility
as it continues to rebuild
after being ravaged
by superstorm Sandy, according
to a local leader.
“We need to make
sure it’s resilient, so this
is a good thing,” said
Community Board 13
District Manager Eddie
Mark.
Hospital honchos last
year announced construction
of the tower
and wall, both of which
will be built using funds
from a $923-million grant
that leaders of the Federal
Emergency Management
Agency awarded
the medical center back
in 2014, roughly two
years after the storm
struck.
Workers intend to fi nish
erecting the tower
and part of the wall in
early 2022, before starting
some demolition
work at the site in order
to fi nish the wall by the
middle of 2023, according
engineer Fuad Adib,
whose Manhattan-based
fi rm Applemon is overseeing
the hospital’s
expansion along with
bigwigs at Turner Construction,
which is also
headquartered on the
distant isle.
The demolition work
includes razing the hospital’s
110-year-old, sixstory
Hammett Pavilion,
whose current inpatient
and outpatient facilities
— which include some
beds and the medical center’s
Behavioral Health
Clinic — would be relocated
to spaces within
the existing complex and
the new tower, according
to a 2016 environmental
assessment required as
part of the job.
The 10-story tower
will rise at 2619 Ocean
Pkwy. on land formerly
used as a hospital parking
lot, and will include
new parking spaces
outside its groundfl
oor lobby. Its secondthrough
10th fl oors will
house services including
a new emergency
department, an X-ray facility,
computerized tomography
and magnetic
resonance-imaging
scanners, a pharmacy,
and labs, according to a
Coney Island Hospital
spokesman.
But before the fi rms
can erect the new building,
leaders of the state’s
Department of Environmental
Conservation
must sign off on a permit
allowing contractors
to drain groundwater at
the development site in
order to dig an elevator
pit for the tower, according
to Adib, who revealed
the timeline to locals
at a Dec. 17 meeting he
hosted with Turner Construction
bigwig Elvis
Karlic.
The builders plan to
dump the groundwater —
which will be treated and
fi ltered — into nearby
Coney Island Creek, according
to a draft permit
published by the department,
which required
the public meeting as
part of its State Pollutant
Discharge Elimination
System, a program that
ensures the purity of water
discharged in such
projects.
The recent forum was
the fi rst public meeting
held since hospital lead-
spokesman said.
But locals can submit
their comments
about the draft permit
to the state environmental
agency in writing, on
the phone, or via e-mail
through Jan. 11, according
to its spokeswoman
Erica Ringewald.
Weigh in on the draft
permit by e-mailing DEP.
R2@dec.ny.gov, calling
(718) 482–4997, or mailing
thoughts to NYSDEC
Region 2 Headquarters
c/o Caitlyn P. Nichols, 47-
40 21st St., Long Island
City, NY 11101.
ON THE RISE: Contractors are laying the foundations for
Coney Island Hospital’s new fl ood wall and 10-story medical
tower, which the builders recently told locals will take at
least fi ve years to complete. File photo by Steve Solomonson
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