both my kids born at st Vincent's. one of the best neo natal care units in the city...(my 28 week preemie is doing fine now). a real tragedy for the community and the collective memory.
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It seems that St. Vincent's had a role in the early death by aortic dissection of Jonathan Larson, the composer of "Rent."
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I was born in St. Vincent’s. Hurts a bit to know it’s gone.
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Not much interested in a play with "saints" as protagonists, American-born or otherwise, particularly one who's the author of an infamous massacre. Such silliness.
St. Vincent's Hospital was a fixture for as long as my 65 years can remember. My dad died there in 1995. In some ways more heart-breaking: On September 11, 2001, its doctors and surgeons and all its facilities were on stand-by to accept the World Trade Center victims who, after all, didn't show up; they were, so many, already dead.
Pretty awful for a large, dense neighborhood not to have a full-service hospital -- true also for Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights, which lost Long Island College Hospital, thanks to Bill de Blasio.
For the record, the French Revolution was a vicious, uncivilized affair too.
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A thumbs-down review that still goes out of its way to tell people this might be for you, but only if you get tickets knowing what the real flaws are going in. This description even sounds like it could have been better at a lot longer and may have cut off at around 2:30 in part because of audience endurance. It feels like the same subject and material could end up being a very worthwhile multi-part streamed series (I think that's what they call them).