Details About NYU's Designs on 370 Jay

The Daily News has a story with more information about how NYU wants to take over the former MTA headquarters at 370 Jay and turn it into a grad school: The university wants to make it a facility called the Center for Urban Science and Progress “where scientists and engineers would work on problems vexing cities around the world, from traffic congestion to energy efficiency.” NYU has submitted the proposal in the hopes that it will win the competition to construct a new science graduate school with city funds; although Stanford and Cornell’s proposals to build schools on Roosevelt Island are said to be the frontrunners in the competition, an NYU official says “It would not be very costly for the city to figure out what it’s going to do on Roosevelt Island between Stanford and Cornell, and then at 370 Jay, we’ll be fixing up a site they wanted to fix up anyway.”
NYU Eyes Former MTA Headquarters for Urban Grad School [NY Daily News]
N.Y.U. Looks to Overhaul 370 Jay [Brownstoner]