Posted Sep 14, 2012, 3:05 AM
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CUNY and Sloan-Kettering Build Cancer Center and Nursing School on UES
September 10, 2012
By Jill Colvin
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The City University of New York and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are teaming up to build a new, state-of-the-art cancer center and nursing school on the Upper East Side, officials announced Monday. The plan will transform an old city sanitation garage along the FDR Drive at 525 E. 73rd St. into a gleaming 750,000 square-foot cancer treatment facility, which will focus on lung, head, neck and blood cancers, including groundbreaking out-patient bone marrow transplants. As part of the deal, CUNY’s Hunter College will build a new, 336,000 square-foot Science and Health Professions center at the same site, which will bring the school's nursing and general departments under the same roof.
The project, which still must go through the city’s land use process, is expected to be completed in 2017 or 2018.
The East 73rd St. facility was demolished in 2008 with the intention of erecting a new garage. But when budget constraints delayed that project indefinitely, the city began brainstorming new ways to capitalize on the site, which was once home to an incinerator.
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The foundation of DSNY's old East 73rd Street garage are still around.
A parking lot is now on part of the old East 73rd Street sanitation garage site. CUNY and Memorial Sloan-Kettering are teaming up to build new cancer treatment and research centers.
A view of the East River from DSNY's old East 73rd Street garage.
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