NEW YORK (AP) — A plan to create a sleek campus for a high-tech, high-powered New York graduate school has gotten city lawmakers’ approval.
The City Council voted Wednesday on the plan to build Cornell NYC Tech on Roosevelt Island. It’s in the East River between Manhattan and Queens.
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The school is meant to help bring academic research to market and to foster the city’s technology industry.
Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology won a contest to create the program. The city is providing free land and up to $100 million in improvements.
Wednesday’s vote is an important step, but other approvals are still needed. Construction could start next year.
To address residents’ concerns, many construction vehicles would use barges to get to the site.
Seven students started in temporary space this winter.
