Griffin Calls on New York Businesses to ‘Fight for Their City’

While New Yorkers gathered in the Canyon of Heroes to celebrate the Knicks, Ken Griffin shoveled dirt next to a canyon on the Upper East Side.

The massive hole in the ground at the corner of 67th Street and York Avenue is where Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is building a 27-story tower that will bear the Citadel founder’s name. He and fellow billionaire David Geffen promised $400 million in 2023 for the inpatient facility, which will feature private rooms for every patient and help respond to a projected rise in cancer cases.

It will join many other institutions ...