A presentation to Manhattan's Community Board 2 tonight by St. Vincent's Catholic Medical centers and the Rudin family will have details of its revised proposal to develop a new hospital on the west side of Seventh Avenue at 12th Street and convert most of its properties on the east side to residential apartments.

The revised plan "significantly" reduces the bulk and scale of its expansion plans and preserves its Nurses, Raskob, Smith, and Spellman buildings in the Greenwich Village Historic District that are east of Seventh Avenue.

The proposal was sent back to the drawings boards recently by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which considered the site of the new hospital building, the O'Toole Building designed with a nautical motif by Albert C. Ledner for the National Maritime Union, important architecturally and also indicated that several buildings across the avenue were also worthy of preservation.

The revised plan, however, still calls for the demolition of the four-story O'Toole Building that was erected in 1961. In 1977, the hospital acquired the National Maritime Union of America Building at 36 Seventh Avenue on the northwest corner at Seventh Avenue and altered it for the hospital to become the Edward and Theresa O'Toole Medical Services building.

Curbed.com this afternoon ran the rendering shown at the right of the revised plan that indicated that the new hospital tower will be reduced in height by nine percent - 30 feet and in width by 53 feet and that the big planned residential building across the avenue would be reduced by 30 feet in height and 60 feet in width, a reduction in width of about a third.

The hospital has filed a "hardship application" to demolish the O'Toole Building and its press release noted that it is doing so "on the grounds of hardship rather than on grounds of insufficient architectural merit, as requested by some preservation groups."

In a statement issued this afternoon, Henry Amoroso, the president of CEO of Saint Vincent Medical Centers said that "in our many months of discussions with the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Greenwich Village community, we received a number of helpful comments pointed to the great desire for a state-of-the-art hospital, but concern about the configuration of our original project - we feel this new proposal fully meets those designs and addresses those concerns." "We look forward," he continued, "to resubmitting our application with LPC and moving forward with our plans to build a 21st Century, green hospital that will provide top-of-the-lie healthcare to those who live, work and visit the West Side of Manhattan."

William C. Rudin, the president of Rudin Management Company, one of the city's most important real estate companies, said "we are proud to have reconfigured our plans in a way that both pushes this critical project forward and addresses the concerns raised by LPC, elected officials and the community."

Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced that the Rudin Family - in direct response to community input - "facilitated an agreement," according to the hospital's press release, "between the School Construction Authority and the Foundling Hospital to provide more than 560 new classroom seats for elementary school students from Greenwich Village and surrounding areas."

The planned new hospital will be the first to be built in the city in 20 years and it will make use of the latest in medical information technology to maintain patient records, diagnostic test results and radiological images electronically. Such patient information will be securely available to physicians in the hospital and at their offices and other remote sites. The new hospital will also have state-of-the-art operating suites designed to incorporate sophisticated image-guided and laparoscopic surgery.