St. Albans VA Hospital - Save this VA Hospital from Demolition - Watch the Video and Sign the Petition..!

QUEENS AND NASSAU COUNTY VETERANS NEED A LOCAL VA HOSPITAL

Please help save St Albans VA Hospital in Queens, NY for our Vets. Sign Petition...

"Protect Saint Albans" is a coalition of individuals/organizations who have joined forces to stop the development of non-veterans housing on the VA's St. Albans Primary and Extended Care Campus (St. Albans VA Campus). Recently, much of St. Albans was successfully "downzoned" in a larger St. Albans - Hollis rezoning effort led by New York City's Department of City Planning. (Click here for a link to the rezoning document.) That downzoning effort was undertaken to discourage population growth in two neighborhoods whose infrastructure -- schools, parks, utilities, transportation, and otherwise -- is already overburdened. Supporting the development of non-veterans housing on the VA's St. Albans campus would only work against the gains made by the neighborhood's recent downzoning. Our Mission The mission of "Protect Saint Albans", is to stop the development of non-veterans housing on the VA's St. Albans campus. "Protect Saint Albans" would prefer that any acreage deemed not necessary to meet the ongoing needs of veterans, be permanently converted back to park land. Prior to construction of The Naval Hospital in 1950, the grounds were occupied by the St. Albans Golf Club and Community Center.

While attending the Queens Civic Congress at the Al Oerter Sports Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association President Renee Hill spoke passionately about this important issue for veterans and the community at large. 

She and her group, the United Coalition for Veterans and Community RIghts (UCVCR) are planning to continue their hard-fought fight for the veterans at the St. Albans facility and we hope anyone who can help will do so.

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Sign the Petition to save St. Albans VA Hospital from private developers...Click here..!

The demolition of our St. Albans VA Hospital is NOT a done deal. We Can STOP this EUL process NOW. Call your Congressional representative NOW regarding this Private Developer grabbing VA land through the VA's EUL program.

Brace Yourselves: The Petition Brawls Are Underway - Celeste Katz - The Daily Politics - NY Daily News

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The sun is shining, the birds are singing and lawyers and candidates are slapping each other silly trying to get their rivals knocked off the ballot.

Another election-year summer, another petition objection season here in good old New York.

Here in the city, Congressional hopeful Kevin Powell spent much of his day in Brooklyn court, battling an effort to knock down the primary petitions he filed in his bid to unseat incumbent Democratic Rep. Ed Towns.

Powell (who has an entire piece of his own here on HuffPo) says he's learned a lot since his last run in 2008 and is running a smart, frugal campaign, but still feels Towns' challenge to his signatures is spurious and undemocratic. He even says his supporters are being bullied and questioned in the middle of the night.

Powell said his case was moved over to the Board of Elections, where they're going through the paperwork line by line (he's personally out campaigning now), and they'll be back in court tomorrow.

"It's very obvious that we have [more] than enough signatures," Powell said.
"It's very obvious to us that they're afraid."

That brought quite a stinging response from Towns spokesman Hank Sheinkopf:

"Unfortunately for him, Mr. Powell is not as good at filing petitions as he is at mistreating women and losing elections. There were so many serious problems with his petitions that our campaign believed we needed to protect the voters from being victims of this possible fraud. If indeed Mr. Powell followed the law, than he has nothing to worry about and will be free to lose again.

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