Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

[3] The center is decorated with a 63-foot (19-meter) mural depicting the life of Malcolm X and a life-size bronze statue of the human rights activist.

In the early 1980s, Columbia University proposed the construction of a modern biotechnology center on the site, a plan that later grew to include a research park.

[6] After community protests and legal attempts by preservationists to save the building,[7] Columbia sought Betty Shabazz's approval for the project.

[7] After a decade of wrangling between the university, the city, and historic preservation organizations, the Audubon Business and Technology Center was completed.

[9] Plans for the site briefly stalled after Shabazz's death in 1997, but the scope of the center was expanded and it eventually was completed although it struggled in its early years.