Finally.
This week, Judge Johnny Lee Baynes dismissed a nurses lawsuit that had led NYU's Langone Medical Center to back out of plans to partner with a developer to buy the bankrupt Long Island College Hospital.
Any understanding of the tortuous path to this deal must begin with a clear fact: A full-service hospital in Cobble Hill makes no economic sense — and has been costing taxpayers millions to keep it open.
Some neighborhood residents fought this reality. They were joined by a nurses union that wanted the courts to order the new owners to hire its members, no matter how unrealistic the costs.
Not to mention a candidate for mayor, Bill de Blasio, who jumped on the bandwagon to advance himself in the Democratic primary.
Still, they would have gotten nowhere without Judge Baynes. Indeed, a done deal began to unravel only after the judge ordered the nurses union to expand a lawsuit against the hospital's current owner to the the buyers — NYU and Fortis Property.
NYU then pulled out, leaving Fortis, which plans to build housing on the site, without a partner to run the new emergency room and preventative-care clinics.
On Monday, Judge Baynes dismissed the nurses' suit altogether, so the deal is back on.
With this action, he's undone much of the damage he had inflicted — though not before politicizing what should have been a straightforward deal and wasting millions of taxpayer dollars in the process.
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