New York Methodist Hospital unveiled preliminary plans for construction of a new outpatient care building, the Center for Community Health, on existing Hospital property at a joint meeting of the Park Slope Civic Council Board of Trustees and the Landmarks/Land Use Committee of Community Board Six on July 11, 2013.

Minimally invasive surgical techniques have reduced the size of the incisions necessary to remove many tumors from "less than a foot" to "less than an inch." Stereotactic radiosurgery allows the delivery of powerful beams of cancer-killing gamma rays to an area the size of a pencil eraser, leaving healthy surrounding tissue unharmed. Now, thanks to the continual evolution of molecular therapies, clinical oncologists at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) can attack cancer cells on a scale so precise that an electron microscope would be needed to watch the fight.

On May 23, New York Methodist Hospital’s (NYM) board of trustees, Hospital administration, staff and friends gathered with hundreds of NYM volunteers for the Annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony. The ceremony celebrated the contributions of almost 1,200 NYM volunteers, who collectively gave over 90,000 hours of their time to the Hospital in 2012.