N.Y.U. Plans an Expansion of 40 Percent: New York University is proposing the largest expansion in its history, with a new tower on Bleecker Street and three million square feet of new classrooms, dormitories and offices in the Greenwich Village area. The plans also call for creating a new engineering school in Brooklyn and a satellite campus on Governors Island, complete with dorms and faculty housing. …By 2031, the university aims to have 240 academic square feet per student; it now has 160, according to its own study, compared to Columbia University’s 326, Harvard’s 673 and Yale’s 866.The plan calls for adding 6 million square feet of space — at a projected cost of about $1,000 a square foot — to N.Y.U.’s existing 15 million, development that quietly started in 2006 and already amounts to 787,000 square feet.
N.Y.U. Plans an Expansion of 40 Percent:

New York University is proposing the largest expansion in its history, with a new tower on Bleecker Street and three million square feet of new classrooms, dormitories and offices in the Greenwich Village area. The plans also call for creating a new engineering school in Brooklyn and a satellite campus on Governors Island, complete with dorms and faculty housing.

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By 2031, the university aims to have 240 academic square feet per student; it now has 160, according to its own study, compared to Columbia University’s 326, Harvard’s 673 and Yale’s 866.

The plan calls for adding 6 million square feet of space — at a projected cost of about $1,000 a square foot — to N.Y.U.’s existing 15 million, development that quietly started in 2006 and already amounts to 787,000 square feet.

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