This project consists of two multi-story buildings designed for groundbreaking research and education. These new facilities will provide approximately 200,000 gross square feet of laboratories for CUNY (and others) and will support advanced research in Nanotechnology, Photonics, Structural Biology, Neuroscience and Environmental Sciences. DASNY’s Senior Project Manager, Michael Cacchio pointed out that “the shared ground floor features a vivarium and lab space with high-end nuclear imaging and microscopy devices. The facility houses a 4,000 square foot Class 100 clean room laboratory which has been constructed to provide an unusually high level of screening and filtering of magnetic fields from both internal and external sources. Flexibility has been built into the facility’s design to accommodate future changes in research laboratory requirements for all services.” The ASRC complex has already received numerous accolades, and will likely receive additional awards in the future. Board Chair Alfonso Carney, Jr. noted that “in my tenure as Board Chair, this was our first opportunity for the Board as a whole to visit a project site in New York City. The Matthew Goldstein Science Complex project is not only the largest in DASNY’s 70 year history in dollar value, but also one of the most ambitious. The facilities we saw are clearly world class.” 

DASNY Board Member and Audit Committee Chair, Beryl L. Snyder was instrumental in promoting the idea of a tour in conjunction with the Board’s June meeting. Beryl said, “At earlier meetings, Steve Curro (Managing Director for Construction) had discussed the scale and breadth of the ASRC project. Because of its importance to both CUNY and DASNY, I thought this would be the perfect project for a Board site visit. It is critical to our work to leave the Board room and visit actual project sites in order to fully understand our impact on the State, as well as individual communities.” 

Former CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein championed the "Decade of Science” at CUNY, leading to new capital funding for this facility and other new science facilities at CUNY campuses in each of the New York’s five boroughs. In honor of this work, CUNY’s Board of Trustees named the this complex the “Matthew Goldstein Science Complex.”