NYSDOH must Redo Environmental Review of JHL 12 9 15

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We as a community have achieved a significant victory in our fight against the negative impacts of Jewish Home Lifecare's (JHL) proposed 20-story nursing home tower on West 97th Street.On December 9, 2015, Justice Joan B. Lobis of the New York State Supreme Court ruled that in its Final Environmental Impact Statement, the NY State Department of Health (DOH) failed to take a "hard look" at specific environmental issues raised by experts and the community about the severe impact of JHL's proposed development.In the ruling, Judge Lobis "vacated and annulled" the Department of Health's determination that had previously approved JHL's application, and ordered that the matter be sent back for DOH for reconsideration of findings on issues of noise and hazardous materials.Petitioners of this Article 78 proceeding included tenants from buildings surrounding the proposed West 97th Street Site and parents of young children at PS 163, the elementary school adjacent to it.