Each Passing Day Appears More Likely That The Next Google May Be Developed On Roosevelt Island - Larry Page and Sergey Brin Support Stanford's Bid To Build NYC Applied Sciences & Engineering School
Image Of Google's Sergey Brin & Larry Page From Red Herring
Way back in February of 2011, I asked almost in disbelief:
Will Roosevelt Island follow in the footsteps of San Francisco's Bay area Silicon Valley to become New York City's Silicon Island? How about the next Sergey Brin and Larry Page starting the new Google from right here on Roosevelt Island? Is that possible? Well, hold on to your hats because it may very well happen sometime in the not too distant future....Each passing day it appears more likely that Roosevelt Island will be home to the proposed New York City Applied Sciences & Engineering School and that Stanford and Cornell Universities are the two top contenders to be selected by NY City to build the school. Earlier this week, Cornell unveiled plans for a state of the art sustainable energy campus. Yesterday, Stanford brought out their Ultimate Weapon - Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin lending their support for Stanford's bid to build the NYC Applied Sciences & Engineering School. In the video below, Mr. Page and Mr. Brin explain Stanford's unique culture of innovation and entrepreneurship that created so many great businesses and jobs. Stanford Daily reports:
... The video, titled “Stanford’s Tradition of Innovation,” lasts three and a half minutes, and does not mention the NYC campus until the last 30 seconds. During the rest of video, Page and Brin discuss starting Google at Stanford and the University’s reputation for being a launching ground for major technology companies.
“I think Stanford is a really unique place,” Page said in the video. “Looking at Hewlett-Packard, Sun-Microsystems, Cisco, Yahoo, Excite, it’s really bred an enormous number of very important companies in the technology world. And I don’t think it’s an accident. I think there’s a culture of entrepreneurship at Stanford on a scale I haven’t seen elsewhere.”
Brin then said while he “love[s] New York,” he feels “one of the things that it is missing is this top-notch university-industry symbiosis.”
“I don’t think I’ve seen this same kind of scale in research and commercialization, pretty much anywhere outside of Stanford,” he continued....
Google Founders on Stanford's Culture of Entrepreneurship via Stanford NYC
According to the Press Release announcing NYC plan seeking an Applied Sciences & Engineering School:
... “Adding a new, world-class applied sciences facility to New York City’s already impressive science and technology community is critical to staying globally competitive,” said New York City Economic Development Corporation President Pinsky. “Such a facility would not only enrich our research capabilities, but it would also lead to commercialization, expanding our City’s dynamic economy. Investing in innovation is the key to keeping our economy robust, diverse and growing, and this initiative is a strong demonstration of the City’s commitment to making these kinds of investments.”...No academic institution knows how to commercialize research projects better than Stanford. Ask Google.
Hope to see you here on Roosevelt Island soon Larry and Sergey!!!!!!!
More on the proposed Roosevelt Island NYC Applied Sciences & Engineering School from earlier post.
UPDATE 11 PM - Images of Stanford's proposed Roosevelt Island NYC Applied Sciences & Engineering School Campus here.
15 comments :
My vote is for Stanford. Cornell is a great school in many many ways but if the objective is to create technologies that create jobs, then I believe Stanford should get the nod. They have proven they have the culture to do it.
So does Cornell's partner, Technion. I like the architectural renderings for the Cornell proposal better, but I'll be thrilled with either one.
I do not want a college here, any kind of college and I am in awe at the amount of people that are in favor of this..have you ever lived near a college? I think that the island residents should have a vote on this...why is that not happening? I guess there wil be ferris wheels at the new park and slot machines one day as well.
I have lived near university campuses all my life and I happen to actually work for a university right now. It's going to be good. I am looking forward to it.
You may get your wish. A story in today's New York Times has Stanford's estimate of the cost doubling. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/nyregion/stanford-raises-cost-of-science-school-bid-to-2-5-billion.html?scp=2&sq=Stanford&st=cseI'm afraid that the cost may ultimately put an end to the RI proposals. Columbia is going to build in Hamilton Heights anyway and NYU is now talking about downtown Brooklyn -- much more visible than RI. I think either Standford or Cornell would be the best thing that ever happened here, but I'm having intimations of fear that it was all too good (i.e., too expensive) to be true.
The campus is expected to house more than 200 faculty members and more than 2,000 students when it is completed, so that is another 2,200 people on this island at any given time NOT including the tourists that seem to love to come over and just look around and take pictures. SO, are you ready to share the Tram and F train with that many people? RI is known for being beautiful, charming and green...you bring a buch of college kids over here and the are transients, and will not give a damn about the property here, nor the residents. The land should be a wildlife sanctuary, or zoo. You want to live in a construction site for 5 years? you all must be outta your minds or stand to gain from this somehow. Most old timers do not even like a new resident here, how in the hack can you welcome 5 years of construction, a bunch of Frat houses and hazing?
Now I see why all of you and RIOC want these schools to come here! MONEY! What a sell out. I read the following.
New York City is offering free land — on Roosevelt Island, on Governors Island or at the Brooklyn Navy Yard — and infrastructure improvements, incentives that are worth up to half a billion dollars
I knew money had to be the lure, 2000 plus more people on this island and all the headachs that would bring, plus all the construction to me, would not be worth it. Once all that moves in, it is here and that is that, and the money this island will get for improvments will be spent . Better rethink selling your life and homes to a college.
You obviously are one of the old timers resistant to change. The transient college kids you speak of are actually post graduate students from a world class applied science and engineering institution, if Stanford wins. Cornell is no slouch either. The development of this site will bring jobs, millions of dollars in revenue, and vastly improve Roosevelt Island and the surrounding boroughs. The construction will be done in phases. The initial impact will only bring about 250 faculty and students. You obviously don't know what you are talking about and have no clue about how Stanford runs their Ca campus. Take your head out of the sand, pack up your stuff and leave. You wouldn't know a good thing or care to know. You're just another old time nay sayer who contributes nothing.
Only the special brand of Roosevelt Island perversity could induce someone to oppose this. Obviously it's not an uncomplicated thing, but seriously?
Stanford or Cornell, either one would be a stone-cold winner. Stanford carries the more exalted rep, and so easy to lean in their favor, but at the same time I think Cornell could execute it well.
my vote is for a black college .yea the new people on the island would just love that .
A zoo? A wildlife sanctuary in such a confined space? Seriously? I have the opposite guess from the poster who thinks you are an old-timer. I think you're brand new to Roosevelt Island. Because those of us who actually are old timers have been through construction and development before and many of us are not as freaked out as you seem to be. And many of us also have realistic ideas to to what is and isn't likely to happen and what is and is not possible. A zoo? Seriously?
Seriously, don't lump all people together because of one person's comments. I disagree that this is someone who's been here long...he/she is probably a very recent resident. And show respect for those of us who have, in fact, been here for a very, very long time. Assuming that you are in "455", your home is testament to a lot of "old timers" who made this community attractive enough and viable enough to warrant HR wanting to put a development here. Many people wouldn't move to RI to save their lives when it was first developed. There were also many, many of us, who welcomed your community both before and after it was built. So try to show a little respect to the people that have gone before you to make this a great place to live. Surely you can be more respectful than "another old time nay sayer who contributes nothing". Or at least wait until you've lived here for 30 years to make such comments.
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