DR. BRUCE STILLMAN, the president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, hires a lot of scientists. But most of the 1,130 postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, medical doctors and others don’t live on the Island. They commute from Brooklyn or Manhattan.
“They don’t want to live on the two acres or the quarter acre” that typifies suburban plots, Dr. Stillman said. The 24- to 32-year-olds entering the work force after a decade in higher education aren’t ready to “spend their weekends mowing the lawn.”
Instead, this global cache of high-tech workers “want to live in other communities with people like them,” cities or villages with “cool downtowns.” On the Island, such places are scarce. [ Read Full NY Times article ]
