CM Narcisse questions OMB on Rockaway trauma center and Canarsie rec center
Narcisse voices support for the Rockaway trauma center, noting 100,000 people rely on one hospital and a police officer was lost due to response time. She also asks for construction dollars for a Canarsie rec center for youth, noting she has $500,000 secured and emphasizing prevention over crisis response.
Thank you, Chair.
And we can be the catalyst for this process and make sure it happens.
Thank you.
And you're so alert.
And thank you for your time.
Usually people get tired at a certain time.
But as chair of hospitals committee and ER nurse for many years in level one trauma center,
I want to really put my support behind the trauma center we're talking about on the Rockbury Peninsula.
Peninsula needed for a long time, and I hope that we can address this.
More than 100,000 people live in the peninsula, and they only rely on one single hospital for service.
We lost a police officer because of a time-consuming, and you know when you're in an emergency, it's a tick-tock moment.
Anytime you can be gone.
And we don't want that to happen, so I'm hoping that you look into this.
This is very important.
Now, coming back to my District 46, Canarsie has lived through a lot.
When we're talking about gun violence, our youth and our kids really want to have a rec center, and they've been asking for it.
You know, I play basketball in the court with them, and that's all they ask me, when we're going to have a rec center.
We don't have no swimming pool, and I think that's a great opportunity for you.
for us to address those.
This is a prevention.
You know, as a nurse, we do preventive, you know, we have to prevent things from happening.
So I hope that we can work together on this.
I already have a steady money, half a million dollars, and I'm hoping that if anything, anywhere in your budget, you can put some construction dollars to help us out to save our kids.
So thank you for raising it.
Happy to talk to you more about it.
And, you know, it's the next generation of Knicks players on that basketball court.
I'm a mom.
What can I tell you?
I grew up with them.
Now I'm still playing basketball with them.
So I don't want them to die.
And I'm sure you don't want that, too.
You seem you're a smart man and you know prevention is better than curing.
So I hope we can sit down and discuss that and find a way for both projects.
Very important.
Thank you.
Thank you.