04/17/2023 10:32:21 AMSeventy years ago, in April 1953, the state of New York broke ground on the new Basic Sciences Building at Downstate, establishing the beginning of the “Downstate” era. On April 5, 1950, following the signing of a merger between the Long Island College of Medicine and the State University of New York, which was newly established, broke ground for the current Basic Sciences Building; President Dwight D. Eisenhower subsequently laid the cornerstone in 1954.Office of the President/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2023/04-17/state-breaks-ground-on-bsb.xml