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Originally Posted by Crawford

You should visit Roosevelt Island again. It's now fairly busy. There's a new Cornell University campus, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial at the southern tip, and many thousands of new apartments. The northern third of the island is the last part to be redeveloped (old hospital replaced with highrise apartments).

I doubt Governors Island will ever get subway access, given all the higher priorities. Stony Brook University is building a campus there, kinda following the Cornell model on Roosevelt Island, but I think ferries will be sufficient.

Like 15 years ago, Stanford was vying with Cornell to build that campus on Roosevelt Island, but it was awarded to Cornell after Stanford withdrew it's proposal.

"...Meanwhile, Stanford University withdrew its $2.5-billion bid to build a Roosevelt Island campus under the initiative on December 16. After weeks of negotiations with the city, it was determined that “it would not be in the best interests of the university to continue to pursue the opportunity,” Stanford said in a statement. It would not elaborate further. The university had proposed a 1.9-million-sq-ft, graduate-level teaching and research campus that was expected to house more than 200 faculty members and more than 2,000 students upon completion..."

https://www.enr.com/articles/11328-cornell-wins-nyc-s-applied-sciences-competition

That would have been very cool had it happened imo.