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 Staff 8/10/05 3:15pm

Bloomie and the Bean

Matthew Schuerman reports on why he’d rather have stayed in bed:

“I’ve already complained that coffee is not being served,” the mayor said, walking into a press conference this morning at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital. Then, turning to Nobel-prize winner Harold Varmus, “But coffee’s probably not good for you.”

“Sloan-Kettering thinks so,” said Dr. Read More

By Anne Roiphe 2/15/99 12:00am

Back Straight, Footing Sure in Icy Winds

I have a friend from another country who has just been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She came to New York for a consultation with a doctor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Her home country, not in darkest Africa, had seen only two cases identical to hers in the last 40 years. So America, with its Read More