Irving Cancer Research Center

1130 St Nicholas Avenue | also 1132 St Nicholas Avenue | Washington Heights | built 2001

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1909

    George Crocker leaves $1.5 million to Columbia for cancer research

    When Crocker, a son of Central Pacific founder Charles Crocker, died in 1909 he had lost his wife Emma to cancer and had been diagnosed himself. His bequest let Columbia set up the Crocker Special Research Fund to study the causes, prevention and cure of cancer. That research program grew into today's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, whose investigators work in the Irving Cancer Research Center.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

  2. 1996

    Herbert Irving's $12 million gift gives the cancer center its name

    Because of a $12 million gift from Herbert Irving, co-founder of the food distributor Sysco, the cancer center was renamed the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1996. Its researchers gained a shared home when the Irving Cancer Research Center opened in 2005.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

  3. 2001

    February 9

    A $21 million Irving gift launches construction of the Irving Cancer Research Center

    The gift made Irving the largest donor in Columbia-Presbyterian's history, with nearly $61 million given. The center was to be the third building in the Audubon Biomedical Science and Technology Park and would double Columbia's laboratory space for cancer research.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

  4. 2002

    February 22

    A topping-out ceremony marks the structural completion of the thirteen-story Irving Center

    Davis Brody Bond designed the roughly 300,000-square-foot building, which has nine floors of research space, underground parking and clinical areas. A $10 million gift from the Avon Products Foundation paid for a breast cancer screening facility and research laboratories. The site is on St. Nicholas Avenue between 166th and 167th Streets.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

  5. 2005

    May 5

    The Irving Cancer Research Center is dedicated, doubling Columbia's cancer lab space

    Columbia President Lee Bollinger and Dean Gerald Fischbach hosted the ribbon-cutting, and National Cancer Institute director Andrew von Eschenbach gave the keynote. The building holds laboratories for brain, breast, gastric, pancreatic, prostate and lymphoma research, plus classrooms and the Avon Foundation Breast Imaging Center, which serves women who are medically underserved.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

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