Put this nursing home in the hall of shame!
An 83-year-old widow is fighting to reclaim her late husband’s beloved Yankee jacket from a Far Rockaway, Queens, facility, nearly a month after his death.
Die-hard baseball fan Irving Greenberg, 84, died at Bishop Charles Waldo MacLean Episcopal Nursing Home on Sept. 29.
But staff never returned his most cherished possession, a navy-blue Bombers jacket with the white Yankee logo — and handed over a box of someone else’s clothes instead, his widow said.
“It’s very sad. My husband loved that jacket,” said Alicia Greenberg, a retired nurse who was a year away from her 50th wedding anniversary.
“He used to watch TV and yell all the time over the Yankees. I just want it back for sentimental reasons.”
Bishop MacLean staff told the family to call security and housekeeping, before instructing them to visit the laundry room.
“It’s like a ping-pong ball. Every one tells me to ask somebody else,” Greenberg said.
Nursing-home staff called the accusations off-base.
“Everything that comes in is logged, [and] we don’t have anything about them bringing a Yankees jacket,” said administrator Michael Biderman.