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.
this is great for the boro. how can a brooklynite think otherwise?
If you’re buying your “pot” in Washington Square, *you* definitely didn’t go to Harvard…
It’s fantastic news that NYU might make a major play in downtown Brooklyn. As noted above, though, let’s hope they start spending a few pennies on good architecture. Their buildings in the East Village–one of which I lived in for a while in grad school–are fugly.
NYU students will have better bikes and iPods than me, so I’m cool with it. The stick-up kids from the Farragut Houses go for quality.
What, NYU is not content with taking evey last inch of the Village, they now need to take B’klyn too. I’m sure they want to overun anywhere that is historic.
The point about diversity is that downtown is not diverse at all right now. NYU will make it so. Good all around in my opinion.
for those harping on diversity, NYU turned a very diverse neighborhood into a homogenized, mostly tourist (err, i mean midwestern transplant) area.
and have you seen the garbage that NYU has been building lately? Thier latest residence hall makes the Novo look pretty.
This is welcome news for the neighborhood — I personally think a downtown location makes more sense that pressuring the Village; Poly is already here, downtown real estate has lots of opportunities for NYU, and it will only strengthen the area. Welcome NYU!
makes sense
1:22: Huh?