NYU Has Big Building Plans at Metrotech
As part of a 20-year plan that would see the university add six million square feet to its portfolio, New York University wants to build one million additional square feet for its engineering school at Metrotech. The foundation for the Brooklyn expansion were laid in 2008 when NYU agreed to merge with Polytechnic, whose campus…
As part of a 20-year plan that would see the university add six million square feet to its portfolio, New York University wants to build one million additional square feet for its engineering school at Metrotech. The foundation for the Brooklyn expansion were laid in 2008 when NYU agreed to merge with Polytechnic, whose campus abuts Forest City Ratner’s office complex in Downtown Brooklyn. The Times, which broke the story this morning, reports that the architecture firm of Cooper, Robertson & Partners is working on a design for the Brooklyn expansion. The firm’s website refer to “new academic and residence hall construction” and the rendering above shows the foundation of a new building on the western side of Metrotech along Jay Street. So far, the Brooklyn build-out does not appear to have the same level of controversy and resistance facing the school’s expansion plans for both Greenwich Village and Governor’s Island.
N.Y.U. Plans to Expand Its Campuses by 40 Percent [NY Times]
makes so much sense for NYU to buy the whole watchtower minicampus along jay, running from sands to front
DeLapp,
I was sad, too, at first, when NYU tore down the Palladium. But it turns out that that course of action helped turn that stretch of E 14th street from barren and sad to vibrant and pleasant.
Don’t you agree?
I like BrooklynChicken’s idea: let NYU have its way with Atlantic Yards. That would be wonderful.
I’m thrilled to have them in the neighborhood. Anything that would populate the area and make it possible for some good stores, bars and restaurants to open up is good in my book. And I beg to differ on NYU destroying the Village. It’s not like less-sensitive developers wouldn’t have developed the area if NYU hadn’t.
NYU is a machine that cannot/will not be stopped.
Polytechnic is a great school full of brilliant kids – real strivers. If this puts NYU/Poly on the map for Brooklynites and New Yorkers in general, I’m all for it. Last I heard, Polytechnic was in the 10 top engineering schools in the country but it’s been virtually invisible. I hope this gets them some well deserved attention.
Seems like a good thing to me, but it has nothing to do with Metrotech being a success or not. The attraction was location – not Metrotech. Polytech was there before Metrotech.
This picture looks like a renovation of the first floor of the existing building, 5 MetroTech. This building is an old converted factory that has recently been expanded and re-facaded at great expense, and it will not be knocked down soon. There looks to be, from this drawing, some additional expansion into an area that is currently a small parking lot, but the vast majority of what is pictured clearly corresponds to the bones of what is there already.
where are all the comments about what a failure metrotech is?
On the face of it, sounds good to me, too.