Trump administration set to shutter iconic research center in New Yor
Source: Axios
11 hours ago
Scientists at an iconic NASA research center in New York City have been told they have until the end of the month to vacate their building and everything in it— with nowhere else to go.
Why it matters: The closure of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a building owned by Columbia University and made famous for housing the diner that appears in "Seinfeld," is the latest blow to scientists and climate change researchers from the Trump administration and DOGE.
Scientists at Goddard who spoke to Axios warn that critical work — including the maintenance of global temperature records dating back to the 1880s used by economists, insurance companies and private developers — is at risk with the Center's closure. Home to more than 100 scientists, the Goddard center is nearly as old as NASA itself, founded in 1966. It's where the terms "black hole" and "quasar" were coined.
State of play: Scientists there got an email last month alerting them to the imminent closure of the building, four of them told Axios Friday afternoon.
"This is existential for us," said Joy Romanski, a climate scientist at Columbia University who works at the center. "We can't recreate this anywhere else. And it doesn't work to be remote." The others, who work directly for NASA, asked for anonymity for fear of retribution from the federal government. They were told to remove all belongings from the space, down to the bare walls.
Zoom out: The magic sauce to the center, they said, is the collaboration between scientists and the post-doctoral students that come through every few years, as well as its close relationship to Columbia University.
"This is highly destructive to us, and I believe it's intentional," one said.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/17/trump-nasa-goddard-office
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That is all! 
Luckily, that "Jewish Science" was integral in creating a working atomic weapon. Nazi Germany went down the rabbit hole of Deutsche Physik, and Heisenberg created nothing. We didn't labor under such foolishness. Unfortunately, in a different way, now we are. 
That would mean the university would be calling the shots concerning occupancy if the lease was canceled. On the other hand, if the government retained the lease and wanted to sublet it to someone else I guess they could throw them out, but that's not what it says. I think the other docs are about the government wanting to dispense with properties it owns (or leases?). Maybe the government owns that property and they were leasing it to the university and the article got it wrong. I'm just trying to follow what's written in the article and it's unclear where the onus really lies.
it's no different than a person cancelling a lease to an apartment.
The building probably IS owned by Columbia and the government plans to no longer be there and are "vacating the premises".
It has no bearing on who owns the building it's a matter of no longer paying to be there.
It is all the AI-programmed bullshit "cancellations" that brainlessly make no provisions for WHERE the occupants WILL be (assuming they haven't already been "fired" since NASA has been undergoing a gutting process).
There is a similar phenomena of cancelling WAH (work at home) agreements and forcing employees to return to work with not enough leased space to even work. I have former co-workers who had indicated that there was a running joke going around about "driving in to work and sitting in their cars out on the street to try to access their networks" because there was no office space to return to.
(and just to clarify - federal employees are not just working in "government-owned" buildings but most are probably working in "private" buildings where space is leased by GSA)
you can imagine the pain I am feeling watching all this unfold. I am glad that I left before it happened (it was 2 weeks after 45's first term inauguration) but I still have former coworkers at my agency (a bunch of whom had a "retirement/layoff" get-together luncheon a few weeks ago).
When you say "it's all owned by the government" - that's what the old "G.I." term that evolved to reference soldiers, sortof meant - "Government issue". 
As a daughter of a fed, I remember having these at home -
When I eventually worked for them, we had the Skillcraft-logoed ones (the "ABILITY ONE" contract was with a company that hired the disabled) -
And then eventually our office just bought pens from Staples.
I expect ABILITY ONE is on the chopping block (if it wasn't already taken out). 
