TimesLedger: LaGuardia Community College Ready to Train People for Jobs in Life-Sciences Fields – Effort to Establish Long Island City as Life-Sciences Hub

By Bill Parry

February 23, 2018

…”When the city’s Economic Development Corporation issued a Request for Expressions of Interest for creating an applied life sciences hub last month, Long Island City was specifically referenced as a possible location. The neighborhood’s extensive residential development, planned office development and its nexus with a home-grown tech industry make it the perfect candidate for the hub, which Mayor Bill de Blasio said would spur an estimated 16,000 new, good-paying jobs…”

LIC Partnership President Elizabeth Lusskin says, “We offer a strong labor pool and we have LaGuardia Community College as a partner for training people for many levels of jobs such as lab techs, accounting departments, maintenance staff and payroll and other support services.”

Read full article here: Long Island City Partnership launches effort to lure New York’s life-sciences campus to booming neighborhood