WPCNR EAST SIDE STORY. October 5, 2006: A spokesperson for New York Presbyterian Hospital declined comment on a series of questions WPCNR posed to them after the Common Council voted to table the Memorandum of Understanding that, if approved will pave the way for a subdivsion of at least 125 homes on 60 acres of NYPH property lying adjacent to Bryant Avenue.

WPCNR asked  Willa Brody of the NYPH Community Affairs, why if the hospital was so inclined to provide a park for the city that they would not give the 5.5 acres to the city outright, with no compensation as a good will gesture, leaving the rest of the 60 acres available to build the proton accelerator/biotech facility.

WPCNR asked  if the hospital had no plans to build housing on the 60 acres, why they would require "payment" of 11 additional homes to put into any apparently mythical subdivision instead of a cash payment of approximately $10 Million.

WPCNR asked what plans the hospital had for developing the rest of the property (the north side of the property) other than the 65 acres covered by the Memorandum of Understanding?

WPCNR asked in the Proton Accelerator Proposal/Biomedical facility was dead, considering that the hospital was reported eager to agree to the Memorandum of Understanding.

Ms. Brody declined comment on behalf of the hospital thusly, issueing this statement: Received your questions, but we have no response at this time. This is the Mayor's proposal and at this point the matter lies with the Council.

However, when Mayor Delfino first presented the proposal he described it as a agreement he had worked out with the CEO of New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Herbert Pardes, over the course of a year, indicating it had been a mutual plan.