Today, two Downtown Brooklyn business groups put out this 90-second video advocating for NYU’s plan to put a Center for Urban Science & Progress campus in the old, dilapidated MTA building at 370 Jay Street. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and the DUMBO Business Improvement District have both been vocal about their desire to see CUSP be developed, and this video is the latest in a string of publicity they have given the project. It is yet to be seen if NYU will win funding from Bloomberg to go ahead with the project, but we have a hunch that as long as the MTA and the university can strike some kind of deal about the purchase price of the building, this will probably end up happening.
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Nice land grab attempt. Doesn’t NYU have enough property there? They need a half million square feet of classrooms? Geez.
Try doing what Brooklyn Law School did – be part of the neighborhood, don’t make it all one big NYU campus.