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Rockefeller University Starts Its Expansion Over a Busy Highway
“Crammed hard against the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive from 62nd Street to 68th Street on the Upper East Side, the university had limited space for new construction and no real estate was available on any edge of its property. So the university looked again to its border with the F.D.R. Drive, and building over it became the best option, said Timothy O’Connor, the executive vice president of Rockefeller. ‘This is the only way that the acreage of the university was going to expand,’ Mr. O’Connor said. ‘It was the most creative approach.'”
