Brooklyn BP Petitions for Downtown High Tech Campus

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.