Does anyone here attend Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in NYC?

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1 month ago 05/22/2024 12:19am EDT

Does anyone here attend Cornell Tech (or live or work on Roosevelt Island in NYC)? I'm curious how much running a serious middle-distance or distance runner can do on or from Roosevelt Island.

Here's an excerpt from the linked article: "Yet even now the school is almost certainly the single most effective economic development project undertaken by city government in recent decades.
'With the possible exception of two decades of investment in biotech to create a life sciences sector, I can’t think of another policy that has been this successful,' said Jonathan Bowles, executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, which tracks economic development policy."

thecity.nyc

Cornell Tech, Dynamo on the East River, Has Incubated More Than 100 Startups But Can It Engineer Its Own Growth?

Alyssa Katz

The city-seeded research campus on Roosevelt Island has been a quiet force in New York City’s tech economy yet is still little known even as students, faculty and alums play a crucial role in the booming AI marketplace.

Link:www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/20/cornell-tec...

1 month ago 05/22/2024 11:04am EDT

re: Like running around a bathtub

I think it is possible to train fairly well.
The 3.5M loop around Roosevelt Island is car-free and very runnable. I used to know all the miles splits and the 1K, 2K and 5K splits and did all my threshold-tempo there. You can use the South Point Park to do some shorter intervals (there is a nice loop of ~400 m). For track workouts, the Astoria track is ~2M away and open year-round, so you can warm up going to the track, do your workout an cool down while getting back home.

The only thing that is really missing is a place to do serious hills. For these, you need to hit Central Park.

1 month ago 05/22/2024 11:16am EDT

re: Been there done that...

Just to fill in the gap there, about 2/3rds up the island, you can run across the short Roosevelt Island Bridge to Queens, take Vernon left up to Main to the right, take a left on 12th St and that will take you to the Astoria track.

1 month ago 05/22/2024 11:21am EDT

re: Been there done that...

You can run the Queensboro bridge for hills too. Gets crowded at times, but early or late would work. Its not steep, but it is sustained and is the biggest hill in the NYC marathon and its basically at the doorstep of Roosevelt Island.

Roosevelt Island is very isolated and kind of weird, but you are a quick tram ride from Manhattan. Plenty of running options in NYC and there are a lot of fast runners who make it work. I often wonder what it would be like to live there (probably pretty weird).

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