Cornell won't open the first phase of its applied sciences technology campus on Roosevelt Island until 2017, with construction breaking ground in 2015. But patients with pre-existing hospital conditions at the Goldwater Hospital are getting 86'd in a hurry to make way for a public demolition ceremony in 2013, before Mayor Bloomberg leaves office. Health and Hospitals Corporation officials are now brainstorming on where to relocate more than 500 patients. [NYP]
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