Einstein Van Etten Building

Bronx, NY

After reviewing options including demolition and rebuilding, EE&K proposed that the building be re-used as a combination of clinically-related facilities and campus housing.

The potential synergy in co-locating Clinical Research and Clinical Educational programs such as CERC, Aging Studies, PIRC, Clinical Skills, Anatomy Labs, and a future Simulation Center supports Einstein’s growing leadership in clinical studies and brings together members of the community currently dispersed in the Rousso, Kennedy and Montefiore facilities. The Bronx Medical Examiner at Ground Floor level and a Dialysis Center on the First Floor can remain as existing compatible tenants, contributing revenue.

Preliminary layouts indicate that early phase facilities can be located on the Ground, First and Second Floors as part of a feasible and practical first phase.

The conversion of selected Van Etten building wings to studio apartments for medical and Ph.D. students provides for the desired increase in on-campus housing. Einstein’s proposed housing program calls for 450 new units, three-quarters of which are to be studio units and one-quarter one bedroom units. Van Etten, which is best suited by NYC Zoning and Building code to provide student housing, will provide approximately 200 studio units. A campus entry from the quadrangle shared with the Price Center, with weather-protected access to the Price Center lobby for security, leads to a separate existing elevator bank of two elevators. Both the future improvements to the Eastchester Road Residence and the transfer of students from multi-bedroom units in the Eastchester Road Residence to Van Etten create the potential for post-doctoral researchers to live on campus and to participate more closely in campus activities.