Campus
On March 24, 1970, the NYC Board of Higher Education approved the former Ford Instrument Company building on Long Island City's Thomson Avenue as the location for the College. Renovations to the five story, former factory, which had most recently been used to manufacture materiel for the U.S. Army in World War II, began the same year. This building would serve as the Main building of the new college -- renamed Shenker Hall in 2009 in honor of the College’s founding president.
On September 22, 1972, the school received from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, for payment of $1, a 5.2-acre (21,000 m2) site in Astoria that had formerly been the U.S. Army Pictoral Center, with the intention of moving the college to a campus on the new site, but when the city's budget crisis hit in 1974, the site had to be sold off, as the expense of maintaining it in the interim was too high. In the years since its founding, the college has remained in its original building, but has expanded into nearby buildings.
Along with the Long Island City Business Coalition, the college occupies the historic Sunshine Biscuits Building, building "C" on their main campus.
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