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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, FEB. 24, 2019
New City Tech complex opens
BY MAYA HARRISON
This building gets a passing
grade!
Educators at the New
York City College of Technology
cut the ribbon to
open its new Downtown
learning center this month,
concluding a years-in-themaking
project to build
new classrooms for the
school’s health-care and
sciences programs.
The city-block-sized facility,
which also includes
a 1,000-seat theater, an 800-
seat gym, and a wellness
center, will allow City Tech
students to stay at the cutting
edge of science, technology,
engineering, and math
education, according to the
public college’s president.
“We are confi dent that
this new complex will allow
us to further our mission
of preparing the technologically
sophisticated
workforce needed to keep
New York competitive, and
support core sectors of New
York’s economy,” said Russell
Hotzler.
The new building at 285
Jay St., where the university’s
antiquated Klitgord
Auditorium once stood,
includes eight fl oors of offi
ces, classrooms, and labs
for students and educators
in a variety of curricula,
including restorative dentistry,
dental hygiene, radiology
and medical imaging,
nursing, health-services
administration, chemistry,
and biology.
Workers kicked off the
$410-million job to construct
the complex back
in 2013 , when City Tech
administrators hoped it
would debut as soon as
spring 2017, roughly two
years earlier than its offi -
cial Feb. 14 opening day.
OPENING DAY: (From left) Restorative-dentistry student Carlos
Santana showed off the labs. City Tech educators, elected offi cials,
and other local leaders cut the ribbon to open its new Downtown
building on Feb. 14. Radiologic-technology and medical-imaging
students took a seat in the new facility’s theater.
Photos by Trey Pentecost