Report describes neighborhood-focused strategies to boost connectivity, wellness, and jobs in and around the Montefiore Einstein Morris-Park healthcare campus
July 8, 2024— In advance of the 2027 arrival of a new Metro-North station in Morris Park and its imminent city-led rezoning, the Urban Land Institute New York (ULI NY) and Montefiore Health System (Montefiore) released a report today, entitled Reimagining Montefiore Einstein-Morris Park as a Transit-Connected Campus. It distills recommendations from a ULI New York Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) — a cross-disciplinary team of experts — to help inform and guide future work. The report outlines strategies to improve visibility, connectivity, and economic opportunity at the Montefiore Einstein Morris-Park campus that will transform the area into a regional wellness, healthcare, and jobs destination.
The TAP was commissioned by area anchor and healthcare provider Montefiore Health System to help shape its masterplan and to involve its neighbors in reimagining Montefiore’s Morris Park campus and its environs, where over decades buildings have been added piecemeal to the campus.
Montefiore has a unique opportunity to leverage the Morris Park Metro-North station development, just minutes from Penn Station and Westchester County, and the city-led rezoning, which has the potential to add six to nine million square feet of new real estate to the area, attract 6,000 residents, and create an estimated 15,000 new jobs around the station. TAP recommendations will help guide decision-makers and partners as they work together to explore the possibilities for this campus and neighborhood, which many believe will become a bustling hub of activity with upwards of 3,000 daily passengers projected to pass through the planned station.
