Roosevelt Island Cornell Technion NYC Applied Sciences and Engineering School Town Hall Meeting Scheduled For April 5 Says Council Member Jessica Lappin - Community Planning Board 8 Meetings On Cornell Campus To Be Held On Roosevelt Island Too

Image of Proposed Roosevelt Island Cornell Campus From You Tube

Roosevelt Island's New York City Council Member Jessica Lappin reports:

Town Hall on Roosevelt Island Tech Campus

I invite you to join me at a town hall meeting with Cornell University President David J. Skorton, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Assembly Member Micah Kellner, and others to discuss Cornell-Technion’s plans for a new applied sciences and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island.

What:Cornell-Technion Town Hall Meeting
When:Thursday, April 5th at 6:30 p.m.
Where:Manhattan Park Community Center
8 River Road, Roosevelt Island

For information contact my office at (212) 980-1808/ (212) 788-6865 or email lappin@council.nyc.gov.

Roosevelt Island's Assembly Member Micah Kellner sent the following letter to Community Planning Board 8 (CPB 8) Chair Nickolas Viest urging that all CPB 8 meetings on Roosevelt Island Cornell Technion campus be held on Roosevelt Island.

Dear Chair Viest,

The applied science and engineering campus to be built on Roosevelt Island by the partnership of Cornell University and The Technion-Israel Institute will be subject to review under New York City’s (NYC) Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) process. The triggering factors for this are that it will be located on NYC land currently occupied by the NYC Health and Hospital Corporation’s Goldwater Hospital.

When Manhattan Community Board 8 (CB 8) begins its review of this project, I am respectfully requesting that all meetings convened under the auspices of CB 8 be held on the Island.

Even though this project will spur long term economic benefits to both New York City and State, the construction of this multi-phase project over more than twenty years will have tremendous impact on the daily lives of Island residents and will change this residential community forever. By holding the CB8 meetings on the Island you and your fellow board members will be allowing for greater participation by the residents....

CPB 8 agreed to hold the meetings on Roosevelt Island.

Below is video of February 28 meeting of Roosevelt Island residents Silicon Island Task Force discussing process of implementing a Community Benefits Agreements with Cornell Technion.



The video is not of the whole meeting because I had to leave before it ended.