Violet Tide Coming to Downtown?
Downtown Brooklyn might become something of a college town. According to a report in Washington Square News, NYU’s new 25-year expansion plan includes taking around 1 million square feet of space in Downtown Brooklyn. While NYU hasn’t released details about how it would expand across the East River, the plans are presumably tied to the…
Downtown Brooklyn might become something of a college town. According to a report in Washington Square News, NYU’s new 25-year expansion plan includes taking around 1 million square feet of space in Downtown Brooklyn. While NYU hasn’t released details about how it would expand across the East River, the plans are presumably tied to the school’s merger with Polytechnic (though the school already snatched up some graduate housing at 67 Livingston on its own). It’s unclear whether the university would build new facilities or whether it would merely use existing space. Think this is good news for the rapidly transforming area? From a supply-demand perspective, it seems like it could only bolster the market.
NYU plans expansion into Govs Isle, Brooklyn [Washington Sq. News]
Downtown Brooklyn in Transition [Brownstoner]
Photo of Downtown by chickitykd.
Higher education is possibly Brooklyn’s best bet at developing an export industry and being something more than a bedroom community for Manhattan. The handful of artists, writers, choreographers, etc. who live and work in Brooklyn are nice, but that doesn’t go too far.
I agree that NYU moving back to its uptown campus would be pretty cool. But I don’t thinkg CUNY is looking to close Bronx Community College any time soon.
I’m still amazed that NYU has become the number one dream school for kids from around the country. A couple generations back, it was the commuter school for kids who weren’t smart enough to get into City College. This was back when CCNY was free, and your punishment for not getting good grades was you had to pay for college at NYU.
This is why Brownstoner (posters) suck. How could you possibly be against a major world class university expanding into Brooklyn? It is wonderful for the Boro – can only bring more jobs, more $, more prestige and more services. Yet the envy and nimby feelings that seem to consume a large % of Brownstone readership can only find the negative.
Makes you wonder if the Urban Outfitters folks had wind of this.
Insta market!
So ture 10.34, though I must say that it is the Harvard grads that do this the most.
I think NY in downtown Brooklyn is a great thing, especially graduate students.
…nice respectable and modest, then ‘bite my ass?’
They’re very well may be, but they probably don’t go by the moniker seniorbrownstone.
9:33 typifies graduates of Ivy league schools, always having to slip the fact into conversation regardless of relevancy.
“Hi, Jim. I just purchased some toilet paper”
“Why, Yes, Bertrand, it reminds me of the time I used to wipe my ass at Dartmouth.”
I think this is GREAT news – it will bring vibrancy and youth to the area and shake up all of us bourgeois middle-aged dullards. Improve the quality of nightlife, and maybe even bring some good lecture series. University energy is a great thing.
well that sucks, we are going to get bunch of engineering dude walking around. bring over the nursing program, give me something to look at during lunch. 😉
The engineering students are already there. Poly currently has a dorm downtown.