Back on Jan. 19, Governor Cuomo presented an Executive Budget calling for a temporary $1.5 billion personal income tax increase targeted at New York’s highest earners. The left-leaning Democratic s…
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As budget negotiations went down to the wire Wednesday with a midnight deadline looming, the governor dug in his heels on his desired billions in bonding authority to help build ten massive Midtown towers as part of his Empire Station Complex project.
By Michael V. Cusenza
That was fast.
Roughly a day after news spread that the State Department of Health was looking into turning St. John’s Episcopal Hospital into a 15-bed “micro-hospital,” the agency pumped the brakes on the alleged proposal.
“The Department of Health has been working with the management of St. John’s Episcopal for several years in an effort to achieve improved health outcomes and access in the Far Rockaways. Contrary to published reports, the Department has not recommended nor decided on any of the recent proposals developed that would make changes at St. John’s Episcopal, and thinks it would be premature to do so without further analysis and stakeholder engagement,” DOH said in a statement released Thursday. “The State’s operating support for St. John’s Episcopal has increased by 50 percent since 2019 and totaled approximately $60 million last year. Gov. Cuomo’s Executive Budget will provide at least this level of financial support for S