Here's the headline in the new issue of The Forward: "Venerable Bialystoker Home Closing Under a Cloud: Sale of Lower East Side Building to Board Chief Raises Eyebrows." The article breaks some new ground not already reported here and...
New information this afternoon concerning the closure of the Bialystoker Nursing Home on East Broadway. First, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, City Councilmember Margaret Chin and State Senator Daniel Squadron have sent a letter to the state health commissioner.
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Community activist John Penley is getting involved in the effort to save the Bialystoker Nursing Home. Overnight, he left a link to a new Facebook events page on one of our recent stories concerning the closure of the home,...
The city's newspapers are beginning to pay more attention to the shuttering of the Bialystoker Nursing home on East Broadway. Last week, the Wall Street Journal filed a fairly innocuous piece that went into some detail about the facility's...
Another protest is being planned next week in front of the soon-to-be shuttered Bialystoker nursing home. Employees and residents staged a rally August 3rd, vowing to keep the pressure on the nursing home's board and community leaders to save...
It looks like residents and employees of the Bialystoker nursing home on East Broadway were right. In the past couple of weeks, they learned that the facility, which has served the Lower East Side for 80 years, is shutting...
As we reported yesterday, residents and employees of the Bialystoker Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation were outraged by the recent news that the 80-year old nursing home is preparing to shut its doors. This afternoon, they gathered on the...
The Bialystoker Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, an LES institution for eight decades, plans to close at the end of October, leaving nearly 100 elderly residents in need of new housing. In a letter to residents and family members dated July...
