From AM-NY:
Roosevelt Island, known for its iconic tram and sweeping view of Manhattan's East Side, will get a major makeover courtesy of Cornell University.
The Ivy League school is joining forces with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a 2 million-square-foot science and engineering campus for grad students, city officials announced Monday. The initiative is part of the Bloomberg administration's goal to turn New York into a tech hot spot to rival Silicon Valley.
"By adding a new state-of-the-art institution to our landscape, we will educate tomorrow's entrepreneurs and create the jobs of the future," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a news conference at Weill Cornell Medical College on the Upper East Side.
Cornell-Technion was chosen among seven candidates that made proposals. The campus, which will include student housing, will be built in stages and won't be finished for another 30 years.
32 comments:
Is this good or bad? I'm not sure.
Thirty years to build a school ?
Give me a break already.
Can't they build normal buildings anymore - even Frank Lloyd Wright discovered when you get cute with the traditional box the building just doesn't hold up.
Sounds like a land give a way. But having another Ivy in the city is always good for business and the community.
I'm sure NYC kids won't go there. They've been so dumbed down thanks to the Board of Ed, they have to take remedial courses to get into Community College.
" The campus, which will include student housing, will be built in stages and won't be finished for another 30 years."
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Maybe, because they'll have to use union workers.
Thirty years to build a school ?
Give me a break already.
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Its a PHASED PROJECT. Meaning, they don't need the full campus from day 1. They will build out the master plan as the facilities become necessary.
Thirty years to build a school ?
Give me a break already.
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Sure - its like the library system - when you are done with the last mega project in the east you can start all over in the west.
The Cement Index: rough yardstick on the amount of graft on any project.
Anon No. 7:
Exactly right. Where has a college campus been built that was completely done on day 1?
Gary - this sounds like a good bet for NYC. The hope is that graduates from the applied sciences school will start businesses here in NYC and better diversify our economy.
Of course no one in the media mentions that this is replacing a city hospital and the impact that will have on health care.
The city hospital is for the those who are mentally and physically challenge and have no source of income and sometimes family. It's a very sad place, which I'm sure no one here has been to. I have been there over the years with my company during the holidays to volunteer. I haven't heard of the hospital being moved , since I only found out today about the new school.
Hopefully the services will continue even in another area, and be thankful your not in there.
It's the end of the road, no hope.
Right and where will those people be placed? In a more expensive hospital that we will pay for?
Just be thankful "Crappy" that your not in the shape of those in Goldwater hospital are in .
I would rather spend more money on them than a church in a box or other wasteful spending.
Go and visit and you'll understand .
Unless you don't have it in you.
If you were ever there you would understand
As a matter of fact, I used to work there, so I don't need a lecture from you about it.
the original name was "WELFARE ISLAND",before real estate moguls set it up for the internationalists from the U.N.
Columbia U./Presbyterian Hospital and N.Y.U.Medical Cntr. had research facilities in the buildings. the hospitals housed the mostly nyc indigent population.
during this period, about 1960, the N.Y.C.Morgue was located there also.
btw ,it is reported that the Washington ,D.C area has surpassed California's Silicon Valley as the highest income population in the Nation.
some say because of all the political insider trading tips used by our representatives to get wealthy from WALL STREET, buying and selling.
plus the public federal union contracts have become unsustainable because of benefit packages and salaries for the bloated government agencies.
no unemployment in Obama's socialist agencies.
Anon No. 17:
Well, those last couple of points certainly helps me to make up my mind.
As a matter of fact, I used to work there, so I don't need a lecture from you about it.
Too much information, dont give anyone the pieces to the puzzle!
That is a stunning building that will be torn down - a monument to the New Deal and Roosevelt's commitment to the disadvantaged.
We NEED hospitals.
Why are universities becoming octopuses that absorb neighborhood after neighborhood, from NYU to Columbia - than sponsor urbanization studies justifying development or historian apologists like Kenneth Jackson?
Sorry, but NYC is increasingly a place that rich people make money and the 99% get nothing.
The Democratic Party used to be the party of the people - now they are getting as bad as the Republicans.
Bullshit Crappy. You never worked there or you would be more sympathetic.
Your so full of it.
Hey Crappy we know who you are.
You could not have worked there because you could care less about people in need.
Stay in Ridgewood and MV and care only for your own.
Sounds like someone out there has a big problem with me for some reason.
I was the one that brought up the fact that this project is replacing a hospital, which there already are fewer and fewer of. So why do you say that I don't care about people? Because I questioned how closing this hospital will affect those living there as well as people seeking services at other hospitals? Seems like a pretty logical question to me.
I created the blog BECAUSE I care about the people of Queens and how they have been knocked around by those in power.
And if you truly know who I am, you would know that I used to work there.
I guess you're just angry and full of shit. Happy holidays.
Let me get this straight...
While the papers and pols are fawning over the prospect of a hi tech campus on Roosevelt Island, Crapper points out that it means a hospital will be lost, and therefore that means he doesn't care about people in need? What kind of logic is that?
What the hell are you smoking?
This is great for our area.
Hurray!!
What is it with everyone so desperately claiming to know who crappy is? Who cares? He or she or it has given us a venue to highlight the "crap" going on around us.
Ok so sometimes people make personal comments that might offend some of our more sensative electeds, get over it and represent your constituents.
If it werent for Crappy, half the crap going on in Whitestone would never have come to light.
The Whitestone Farms property would never have been cleaned up.
Francis Lewis park was cleaned up several times after embarassing pictures of trees hanging and garbage strewn around the park for days.
The Haz Mat spill on 5th avenue would never have gotten cleaned up.
The Willets Point people would have been bulldozed over and that would have been the end of it.
The indescrections by DOT against our community would continue to go unnoticed.
Crappy's annonymous has allowed several employees of elected officials to "blow the whistle" of sorts without fear of retribution. You know who you are.
So, I for one don't think it matters not who Crapper is or isn't . What matters is the voice he has given Queens.
Thank you, and Happy Holidays
WE LOVE YOU CRAPPY!!!!!!!
CRAP ON THESE IDIOTS WHO JUST WANT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO SHUT DOWN THE TRUE VOICE OF QUEENS.
i was a technical sales rep. for a hardware systems manufacturing company for many years. the medical research scientists of the nyc market used our equipment.
the labs at the welfare i. facilities were some of my accounts.
i guess one can say i did work there.
No ,you didn't work there. Nice try.
Wanna make a difference?
Go and volunteer your time to those in dire need.
Happy Holiday's
So who needs a new college campus in 30 years? There's a demographic collapse taking place as the boomers have passed through age 40 without leaving behind 2.1 kids.
The kids going to this school are likely going to be born 10 years in the future in India, China, and Mexico.
the progressive initiative for foreign students to get special treatment, for legal status after graduation, is in the planning presently.
Anon No. 31:
If that's the case (and I doubt it), those people will come here with the ability to write a sentence in the English language. It's a skill you don't have.
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