The board of trustees of the State University of New York voted unanimously Friday morning to close the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn as an in-patient facility. The meeting room at a SUNY building in Midtown immediately erupted in shouts of "Shame! Shame!" from supporters, who said the university had not given LICH enough support.

The board that oversees the State University of New York system is meeting Friday morning to decide the fate of the Long Island College Hospital, commonly known as LICH.

Governor Andrew Cuomo named former Democratic Comptroller H. Carl McCall the new chairman of the State University of New York Board of trustees. McCall was Cuomo's rival for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002.