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By George Capsis

The new variation of the COVID virus has quintupled in the last three weeks amongst children here in New York and many of them will understandably need hospitalization.

So if you have a child that displays the symptoms of the new Omicron variation you might want to take them to what is considered the best children’s hospital in New York—the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens.

And now for a surprise—this award winning facility was donated just ten years ago by Steve and Alexandra Cohen, who in just a few weeks will become our very close neighbors here in the West Village in a newly built mansion on the corner of Perry and West Street.

Steve Cohen, early in his career, discovered an almost faultless ability to predict stock action and is now a billionaire and one of the richest individuals in the world (and also the recent purchaser of the Mets). Mr. Cohen is now not only your neighbor but mine, just around the corner from Charles Street.

And Steve is not just buying a high up condo with a view of the Hudson—he is building a home for him and his wife Alexandra, his two sons and their families. The West Village is going to be the Cohen family home for decades to come.

And now neighbor Steve, I want to share something with you about your new family neighborhood that you may find disturbing. We don’t have a hospital—we lost the 200-year-old St. Vincent’s Hospital to condos and what we have left is a medical emergency center which can quickly diagnose and send you by ambulance to a real hospital—like the Children’s Hospital you built in Queens.

We have only seven hospital beds in the West Village, but nobody seems to know where they are?

Now Steve, I know if your wife Alexandra came to you and said “I think we ought to build another children’s hospital in the Village for our grandkids,” you would do it just like that.

What we need of course is to replace the 400 beds of St. Vincent’s.

I am ready to make my donation and I ask my readers to let me know if they are also ready.

Steve, you may end up making the biggest donation, but your new neighborhood has the biggest need.

To learn more about the Cohen Children’s Hospital response to recent virus developments, see page 5.

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