The $700 million Taystee Lab Building sits in the Manhattanville Factory District, but the laboratory goes beyond West Harlem’s manufacturing history. Surrounded by brick buildings on West 126th Street, Taystee spans 11 floors, with glass windows that overlook Columbia University and the City College of New York. Inside any of the currently vacant labs, a fuzzy, fireproofing spray coats steel columns — code-ready for life sciences tenants in the once-industrial neighborhood.
The Mink Building, another of Harlem’s life-science newcomers. OLGA GINZBURG FOR THE NEW YORK POST
“Good, bad or indifferent, gentrification has transformed Harlem,” said attorney Larry English, a board member of the East Harlem Development Corporation and former chairman of Manhattan Community Board 9. “This is not the Harlem of 20 years ago coming out of the crack epidemic … West Harlem has the potential to be one of the epicenters of life science in the nation.”
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