The emergency hospital that took nearly $21 million to build closed down without seeing a single patient, New York officials told The City.
Mayor Bill de Blasio approved the project that converted the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook into a 670-bed field hospital, the outlet reported. He announced on March 31 it would be built to handle overcrowding in New York hospitals due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease.