http://americancity.org/forefront/view/Tech-and-the-city
"“Because of the really strong transit links,” says Pinsky in
retrospect, “what Roosevelt Island offers you is the chance to, one the
one hand, create a real campus, which was very important to these
schools, but on the other hand, have that campus be easily accessible.”
Isolation within reach was one reason a small pox hospital serving New
York City residents was built on the island’s remote southern tip in the
mid-1800s. Close enough, but not too close.
It’s a second hospital that provides the 10-acre site for what will be known, somewhat awkwardly, as CornellNYC Tech.
Opened in 1939 when it was still called Welfare Island, Coler-Goldwater
Memorial Hospital’s Goldwater Campus is a forgotten-looking brick
complex, much of it resembling an Eastern Bloc institution. “It has
infrastructure that’s appropriate for a 70-year-old hospital,” says
Pinsky. Goldwater’s patients were already slated to be moved to Harlem
by the end of next year. The city’s $100 million will be put to tearing
down its buildings and putting in a telecommunications infrastructure,
ending up with a wired greenfield."
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