New Cornell Campus to Cultivate High-Tech Industry in New York City [Slide Show]
A collaboration with an Israeli University will incubate start-ups from an East River island with a colorful past
New Cornell Campus to Cultivate High-Tech Industry in New York City [Slide Show]
- RENWICK RUINS: The ruins of the smallpox hospital designed by architect James Renwick and built in 1856 have been designated as a historic landmark and cannot be razed, even though they remain upright with the help of a wood and metal support structure... Courtesy of Larry Greenemeier and Wikimedia Commons
- A NEW KIND OF CAMPUS: An artistic rendering of the 18.6-hectare NYC Tech Campus to be built by Cornell University and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. Plans call for the campus to include a solar array that will generate 1.8 megawatts at daily peak and a 400-well geothermal field, which uses the constant temperature of the earth to cool buildings in the summer and heat them in the winter... Courtesy of Cornell University
- THEN AND NOW: The large balconies on the eastern side of Goldwater's buildings used to offer staff and patients some relief from the summer heat. (The buildings were not air-conditioned.) Access has since been restricted due to safety concerns as the buildings have aged, according to Island historian Berdy... Courtesy of Larry Greenemeier and Roosevelt Island Historical Society Archives
- WELFARE ISLAND LAB: In its early days Goldwater maintained a 100-bed research unit where Columbia University and New York University physicians studied the effects of malaria, cold weather, starvation, arthritis, liver disease and other conditions on volunteers, according to Judith Berdy, president of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society and an island resident since 1977... Courtesy of Larry Greeneeier
- AERIAL VIEW: Goldwater Hospital covers four hectares, with seven connected buildings, shaped like chevrons to provide a better view of the East River on either side of the 240-meter wide island. This view of Goldwater was taken from the Roosevelt Island Tramway, a car suspended from an overhead cable that ferries passengers between the island and Manhattan's Upper East Side... Courtesy of Larry Greenemeier and Roosevelt Island Historical Society Archives