Council commits $2M to upgrade Wyckoff Heights NICU

That’s Wyckoff Heights Medical Center at left, as seen from the corner of Stanhope Street and Wyckoff Avenue. Photo: Lore Croghan/Brooklyn Eagle

BUSHWICK — THE CITY COUNCIL on Thursday announced a $2 million capital investment to renovate and expand the neonatal intensive care unit at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, advancing a broader, multi-year overhaul of the hospital’s maternity and newborn facilities, according to a press release from the Council.

The funding, secured in the Fiscal Year 2026 budget by Speaker Adrienne Adams and Councilmember Sandy Nurse, brings the Council’s total commitment to the project to $5.8 million.

The upgraded 5,000-square-foot NICU will house 15 incubators, nursery and isolation rooms, breastfeeding and family waiting areas and other clinical spaces for mothers and babies in Bushwick and surrounding neighborhoods.

The investment is intended to strengthen the critical safety-net hospital and to address persistent disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes, particularly for Black and brown families.

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