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Four top research institutions received grants as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio s push to make New York City a world public health leader. (NYC Mayor s Office)
NEW YORK CITY A $38 million investment will seed four new biotech center that will help New York City blossom into the world s public health capital, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
De Blasio on Thursday announced grants to four leading scientific research institutions Columbia University, Montefiore-Einstein, the New York Stem Cell Foundation, and Rockefeller University.
He said the investments will help bring back the city s economy after the coronavirus pandemic.
Subscribe This is a crucial part of New York City s economy, a crucial part of what we create in the city is the area of life sciences, but so much more is about to happen, he said.
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$60 Million High Line Expansion to Connect Park to Moynihan Train Hall
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will propose a 1,200-foot elevated pathway that will lead to the new Penn Station development, to be financed by public and private funds.
The High Line park in Manhattan would extend north and eastward under a new proposal from the state.Credit.Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
Jan. 11, 2021
For more than a decade, the High Line, an elevated park that stretches for nearly a mile and half through the West Side of Lower Manhattan, has been a symbol of ambitious urban renewal: a sleek, tree-lined walkway created from an old run-down rail line that cuts through once-industrial neighborhoods.
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has released a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for development teams to transform a City-owned vacant Flatbush site, formerly Public School 90 (P.S. 90), into affordable housing and community development space.
Roughly 100 critically needed affordable homes will be part of the development, in addition to a community center with youth programming at the vacant 2286 Church Avenue site.
The 29,000 square foot development site formerly contained a historic 19th-century school building, which later became P.S. 90 and the private school Beth Rivka. The school was demolished in 2015 due to hazardous structural conditions.
“This Administration is deeply committed to putting the City’s dwindling supply of vacant land to use as affordable housing coupled with community resources,” said HPD Commissioner Louise Carroll.
The Prusik Group, BRP Companies, L+M Development Partners,
and Taconic Partners have signed a 28,000 s/f lease with Trader Joe’s in Harlem.
The popular grocery chain will join Target as the retail
anchors of the new $242 million Urban League Empowerment Center mixed used
development now under construction at 121 West 125th Street.
The 17-story Urban League Empowerment Center will house the
National Urban League’s headquarters and the state’s first civil rights museum
as well as 170 units of supportive and affordable housing for low-income New
Yorkers, 70,000 s/f of office space and nearly 90,000 s/f of retail.
Target already signed a lease for a new 44,000 s/f store and the office space tenants include several locally based non-profits, including the United Negro College Fund, 100 Black Men, Inc. and Jazzmobile. The project, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, is expected to be completed in 2023. Dabar Development Partners is the Owner’s Representative for the National