Speaking at the 2012 convocation ceremony at Cornell University’s Ithaca campus, then New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg called upon graduates to take part in what he referred to as “one of the most exciting projects ever to take shape in New York City’s history”: a new, 12-acre graduate level tech campus and entrepreneurial hub on Roosevelt Island, the mostly underdeveloped strip of land on the East River, between mid-Manhattan and Queens’ Long Island City neighborhood.
“All of you engineers, computer scientists, and techies who are thinking about heading west to Silicon Valley: if you really want to experience life...if you want to have a date whose name is not Siri, come to New York City,” he proposed.
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