At long last, New York has a deal on the future of Long Island College Hospital. It looks like a good one.
The pity is the city could have had the same deal many months and tens of millions of dollars earlier.
When SUNY moved to sell the bankrupt hospital, activists — led by then-mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio — launched an effort to ensure that any bidder would keep a full-service hospital going.
In this they were egged on by Judge Johnny Lee Baynes, even though it was clear to any sane observer the economics were unworkable and all the jobs could never be sustained.
Now the activists have succumbed to reality. In exchange, Peebles Corp. has agreed to commission an independent study on the local community's health-care needs.
But it would only have to implement added facilities that are "reasonable" and "feasible."
The new facility, to be run by North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, will include an emergency room plus a chemotherapy clinic and a nearby clinic for the poor.
For the Cobble Hill community, this will provide appropriate health-care services as well as new affordable and market-rate housing.
That's not much more than the activists stood to get when they began their noisy and costly battle.
Then again, the campaign for a full-service hospital was never really about the community's health needs. It was about TV cameras and political opportunism.
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