Page "LaGuardia Community College" Paragraph 6

On September 22, 1972, the school received from the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, for payment of $ 1, a site in Astoria that had formerly been the U. S. Army Pictoral Center, with the intention of moving the college to a campus on the new site, but when the city's budget crisis hit in 1974, the site had to be sold off, as the expense of maintaining it in the interim was too high.

In the years since its founding, the college has remained in its original building, but has expanded into nearby buildings.