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Brooklyn BP Petitions for Downtown High Tech Campus

NEW YORK CITY-Fueled by Cornell and Technion University’s new Roosevelt Island plan, borough president Marty Markowitz and community officials are hoping for the same momentum to come to 370 Jay St. in Brooklyn Heights, one of the city’s self-professed “tech triangles.”

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on December 21, 2011

NEW YORK CITY-Feeding off the momentum from Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s new Roosevelt Island campus plan, Brooklyn community officials are calling for a similar deal to come to the borough. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and State Senator Daniel Squadron rallied in support for a new applied science campus at 370 Jay St., the long-vacant home of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday morning.

Standing outside the 13-story building, Markowitz urged the city to consider New York University’s and Polytechnic Institute’s proposal to create a center for urban science within the underutilized building, as well as Carnegie Mellon’s plan to develop a school on the grounds of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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