8. Roosevelt Island to become a college campus?! This would be the coolest thing to happen since the Highline. Mayor Bloomberg is taking submissions for NYC tech campus proposals for Roosevelt Island. The likely winner will be either Cornelle/Technion or Stanford University. Take a look at the Cornell proposal for Roosevelt Island HERE: [
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Here are the highlights:
- A 2 million square foot campus; a 150,000 sq ft main academic building with net-zero energy building
- 4 acres of geothermal wells (a total of 400 wells) which will be used to heat and cool the campus
- 500,000 square feet of green space open to the public, with views of the Manhattan and Queens waterfronts.