{"id":468001,"date":"2025-12-24T03:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/468001\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T03:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:02:30","slug":"nyc-morgue-to-move-into-new-life-sciences-and-education-building-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/468001\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC morgue to move into new life-sciences and education building in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Photo-Dec-23-2025-10-48-45-AM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"group of people standing at a podium that has a blue sign\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"NYC morgue to move into new life-sciences and education building in Manhattan 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>NYC\u2019s morgue is moving on down, but staying on the East Side.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>A new public health education hub is coming to 455 First Ave. in Manhattan, located near the city\u2019s medical examiner\u2019s office, where autopsies are performed on victims of suspicious crimes and other forensic research is conducted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>City and state officials said on Tuesday that the morgue will move from 30th Street to 25th Street on First Ave. to be part of the upcoming Science Park and Research Campus (SPARC) Kips Bay, a CUNY center that will provide education for students looking to enter healthcare, life sciences and similar fields.<\/p>\n<p>The center, once opened, is expected to create 15,000 jobs and generate over $42 billion in economic impact, Mayor Eric Adams said at a press conference announcing the project alongside Gov. Kathy Hochul and NYC Economic Development Corporation officials on Dec. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Deconstruction of the current site, which officials called \u201cobsolete\u201d is expected to begin in February 2026, with construction of the new SPARC campus expected to begin in 2027. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2022\/10\/mayor-adams-governor-hochul-plan-first-of-its-kind-job-education-hub-growing?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Planning for the project<\/a> began in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the new learning facility will feature modern classrooms and lab facilities, including a wet lab that supports public health research, where students will get hands-on experience. Although CUNY learning currently takes place at the site, officials will add more than 2 million square feet of academic space over an entire block once the project is completed.<\/p>\n<p>Ayman El-Mohandes, a dean at CUNY\u2019s Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, said the move is about more than just additional space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about finally having the infrastructure to match our ambitions for training future public health professionals and advancing research that matters to communities across New York,\u201d he said, adding that the school has outgrown the current space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adams touted the economic and industry benefits of the project.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSPARC Kips Bay will transform an entire New York City block into a state-of-the-art destination for the life sciences and healthy industry,\u201d he said. \u201cWe thank our partners, NYC Economic Development Corporation, CUNY and, especially, Governor Hochul for her steadfast support and leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137820224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Photo-Dec-23-2025-10-45-27-AM.jpg\" alt=\"group of people indoors at a podium\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" title=\"NYC morgue to move into new life-sciences and education building in Manhattan 2\"  \/>City and state officials announce details of the SPARC Kips Bay project.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/opinion\/50-cuny-alums-lifting-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez<\/a> called the soon-to-come facility a \u201ctransformational project\u201d that will strengthen the city university system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSPARC Kips Bay will expand pathways into public health careers for our students and provide state-of-the-art facilities for our faculty who are conducting research for the public good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the medical examiner\u2019s office will relocate the autopsy facilities and mortuary to the SPARC Kips Bay center once it opens. Chief Medical Examiner Jason Graham, MD, is looking forward to the move<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SPARC Kips Bay project heralds a new era for our agency and the neighborhood we have called home for more than a century,\u201d he said. \u201cWith the groundbreaking today, we take a concrete step toward the vision of a state-of-the-art forensic pathology center that will serve New Yorkers 24\/7 and educate the next generation of leaders in forensic science and medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Separate from the medical examiner\u2019s office, the city\u2019s Public Health Lab, which provides clinical and environmental laboratory services is currently housed at 455 First. Ave. but will move to a new, \u201cstate-of-the-art\u201d science hub in Harlem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. 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