Consider the typical laboratory space: dropped ceilings, linoleum floors, fluorescent lighting, veneer countertops. Windowless caves where scientists hunch over their microscopes and computers, utterly sterile and isolated.
That’s a far cry from Harlem Biospace, New York’s first biotech incubator, located in a former industrial stretch of west Harlem. I am standing in the reception area with cofounder Christine Kovich, where fat silvery ductwork snakes overhead on the 15-foot ceilings and a whimsical “chandelier” of exposed Edison light bulbs, designed by Cassidy Brush of Brooklyn’s Urban Chandy, hangs from a base of reclaimed wood,
Image: Christine Kovich and Sam Sia
