Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva University, announced today a ten-year $30,000,000 building program to develop two campus areas of the university in New York City. He said he expected the program to be launched within a year with both phases underway by 1962.
The major project will be construction of a mid-town center on Manhattan’s West Side as part of the Riverside-Amsterdam Title I project which has been approved by the New York City Committee on Slum Clearance. The other project will be the addition of facilities at the University’s Main Center in upper Manhattan.
Dr. Belkin said that a trustee development committee headed by Louis J. Glickman, New York realtor, was finishing plans for the building program and for a major fund-raising effort to be undertaken as part of the University’s 75th anniversary in 1961.
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