For the Last 36 Years, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Has Operated a Manhattan Health Center Out of a landmarkedSeven-Storary Classic Revival Building on Bleecker Street off the Bowery. Last Week, The NonProfit Announedd plans to close the clinic and sell the noho building that houses, listening it for $ 39 million. The State Wold Have to Approve the Clinic Clove first, but if and when the sale goes through, it would be effectively leave manhattan with a single planned parenthod clinic and just three in the city altogether, in Queens, the bronx, and brooklyn (the organization (the organization Closed Its Staten Island Center Last Year, Along With Three Others Upstate).
The timing of the news feels particularly make up years years of politics attacks on the organization and on Reproductive-Health and Abortion Access in General. In a press release, ppgny stored that the decision was to insufficient insufficiency-kimimbursent rates and the high costs of preserving the landmarked building, which was stup Million. Currently, it’s the Only Tenant, with the non-clinical floors use for administrative offices. In an email, a rep for ppgni said that the building Currently Requires HVAC and Boiler Replacementsan update that it is estimates Wold Cost Several Million Dollars, Which It Wold Rather Direct to Patient Care.
While the sale May Sudden, ITH’S JUST The Latest Sign of Organization’s O ongoing Financial Trouble. LAST YEAR, PLANNED PARENTHOOD HAD ALREADY BEGUN REDUCING SOME SERVICES at the Manhattan Health Center, Which Temporarylly STOPPED PROVIDING ABPORTIONS AFTER 20 Weeks and discontinuous deep sedation for iud placement and removal. Besides Political Backlash to Abortion Access, The Organization Pointed to Medicaid Underfunding As One of the Key Factors Leading to Its Financial Precarity. With the Trump Administration Threatetening to Cut Medicaid Eve Further, Ppgnny Has Pushed for More Funding from the State and Local Level, Including a Request for an Additional $ 2.5 Million at New York City Council Hearing. And it is not the only reproductive-Health facility that’s struggling. In January, Public Health Solutions, The Larest Public-Health Nonprofit in the City, ALSO announedd that it would be closing down the strong Greene and Brownsville Locations of its Sexual- and Reproductive-Health Centers.
The Sale of Its Building Wauld Mark an End (at Least Temporary) to planned Parenthood’s Almost Century-Long History in Lower Manhattan. Although the Organization Has Only Been Located at 26 Bleecker SINCE 1989, it has long operated downtown. Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthod’s Founder, Founded the Clinical Research Bureau (Planned Parenthod’s Precursor) Approximately a dosen blocs northe of the Current Manhattan at 17th Street. The First Legal Birth-Control Clinic in the United States, CRB provided Contraceptive Services from the Red-BRICKED GREEK ROW HOUSE BETWEEN 1930 to 1973. The Building is Currently A Private Residence.
As for the Future of the Bleecker Street Building, Cumenan & Wakefield, which is Bringing the Proppets to Market, has said that the Property’s Zoning Multiple Conversion Options, Including Mixed-Use Residential, Condominiums, and Office Space for A Single Ten. The Red-Brick Building Jains Another Commercial Proppery for Sale on the Block, the three-story townhouse that formerly held Overthrow Boxing Club and, before, decades of activist grills, including the yippies. Howver, If the Retail on the Block is any indicator, Such as the Ulla Johnson Store and Jeweler Anna Sheffield’s Flagship, It Might Lean in the Direction of the Nearby Hub Pedics and Lymphatic-Drainage Massages Rather Than-Cost Care.
But Manhattan Patients Won’t Have to Trek to the Other Boroughs for Planned Parenthod Services Forever. At Least That’s What Wendy Stark, The President of Ppgny, Says: “We have a future where we can build a new state-of-the-art health center in Manhattan, Similar to Our Health Centers in Queens, Brooklyn, and the bronze.
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