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Roosevelt Island Views: The Cornell Tech Canyon

With all kinds of angles, rivers and skylines, Roosevelt Island views can be thrilling, and the Cornell Tech Canyon view is one of the best. Here, in sunny winter scene, you see how the campus’s modern design scales gracefully with...

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Cornell Tech Canyon

With all kinds of angles, rivers and skylines, Roosevelt Island views can be thrilling, and the Cornell Tech Canyon view is one of the best.

Here, in sunny winter scene, you see how the campus’s modern design scales gracefully with the historic Queensboro Bridge.

Full disclosure: I made up “Cornell Tech Canyon,” and I hope it sticks.

Meeting of future and past gracefully bridges the Cornell Tech campus with Roosevelt Island history.
Stack Work Advances While Answers Do Not
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Stack Work Advances While Answers Do Not

HPD told the CAG there was no projected start date and that five business days’ notice would be given. Work on the eastern smokestack began six days later.

On June 17 and 18, HPD told the first meeting of the Roosevelt Island Steam Plant Demolition Community Advisory Group that smokestack demolition had no projected start date. Residents and the CAG would receive at least five business days’ advance notice once a date was set. Scaffolding around the stacks could not proceed until soil removal and backfill were complete and the area stabilized.

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