By Chloe Ashby 9/10/12 4:11pm

Dizzying Designs

Meds and eds and cool designs. (CUNY)

A Healthy Architectural Addition: CUNY and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Building New East Side Facilities

New York City, forever expanding its architectural and medical offerings, is about to add two contemporary healthcare centers to the hospital corridor along the East Side of Manhattan, in a prominent location right on the shore. It will further highlight the city’s position not only at the forefront of the nation’s medical establishment but also within the design leadership.

This morning, Mayor Bloomberg, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, CUNY and Hunter College announced plans to build two new science and medical facilities in a new millio-square-foot building on the Upper East Side. They reflect the Bloomberg Administration’s efforts to expand science and research activity in New York City at a timely moment when the city’s science, technology and research fields are flourishing. Read More

By Jason Horowitz 2/20/08 4:43pm

At Clinton's Morning-After Rally: Defiance

After suffering her ninth and tenth consecutive losses in a row last night, it’s understandable that Hillary Clinton this morning called for an alternate reality.

“Let’s get real,” she said in a Hunter College auditorium that seemed to be packed mostly with the middle-aged women who make up her base. “Let’s get real about this Read More

By Matthew Schuerman 11/20/06 12:00am

Hunter Seeking a Swap: Kips Bay for New Tower

Hunter College is getting into the real-estate business.

Former city landmarks chief and Hunter College President Jennifer Raab wants to sell off the school’s 3.5-acre Kips Bay nursing campus, near the recently sold Peter Cooper Village at 25th Street and the F.D.R. Drive, and build a 16-story building for science and health-professions programs at 67th Read More

By Staff 11/15/06 11:51am

In This Week’s Observer…


Hunter’s Jennifer Raab

Hunter College jumps into real estate
Hunter College is getting into the real-estate business. College President Jennifer Raab wants to sell off the school’s 3.5-acre Kips Bay nursing campus, near the recently sold Peter Cooper Village at 25th Street and the F.D.R. Drive, and build a 16-story building for science Read More

By Staff 3/30/05 4:17pm

Dems Debate Tibet, Nuking Brooklyn

Today marked the historic first debate between the four Democratic candidates for Mayor.

Well, actually, there were only three candidates at the Hunter College event, as Freddy bagged it. And they just gave their stump speeches and answered questions. And, oh, Virginia didn’t actually give a speech.

There were, according to the official Read More

By Ralph Gardner Jr. 11/24/03 12:00am

Crime Blotter

Campaign Is Halted

For N.Y.C.’s Perennial Protester

From Garfield merchandisers to the makers of hair-ball remedies, those with entrepreneurial flair have happily exploited the passion-some might call it insanity-of cat lovers. But few have done so as boldly, according to the NYPD, as a woman who was arrested at the corner of 86th Street Read More

By Josh Benson 10/20/03 12:00am

Is Wesley Clark a Democratic Ike or Bill’s Clone?

The handlers, donors, endorsers and student supporters who had gathered to see former General Wesley Clark speak on Oct. 14 at Hunter College held their breath after one of several high-school students standing behindthe candidate suddenly faintedonto the_auditor-ium stage.

Mr.Clark, who is still a very new candidate, stopped his speech, joined the crowd surrounding Read More

By NYO Staff 2/12/01 12:00am

Dude, Where’s My Bike? No Back-Seat Drivers Here

While no location in the city immediately comes to mind as being off-limits to crime, there are nonetheless certain areas that the savvy criminal knows are best to avoid. These include the frozen zones that the feds flood with Secret Service agents and cops during a Presidential visit and perhaps a Police Department promotion ceremony Read More