The full text of the resolution is expected to be posted on the board’s website later today. Within the next 30 days, the board’s resolution will go to Borough President Scott Stringer for review, as part of the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.

The plan, which still requires multiple approvals, would allow the university to develop approximately 1.3 million square feet across an NYU-owned superblock on West 3rd Street, West Houston Street, Mercer Street and LaGuardia Place.

If the plan reaches final approval, phase I of construction will involve the development of an 800,000-square-foot “zipper” building with ground floor retail, academic space, student and faculty housing, a below ground gym and hotel space, GlobeSt.com previously reported. In addition, NYU acquired land on the corner of Houston and Bleecker streets for $23 million to build a K-8 public school that will be donated to the New York City School Construction Authority, which currently houses a Morton Williams Supermarket. Within the same building, a 190-unit dormitory will be constructed above with a separate entranceway.

During phase II—spanning 2022 to 2031—the university would construct a 14-story, 250,000-square-foot academic building on Mercer Street and an eight-story academic building on LaGuardia Place. Throughout the development, nearly half of the space for the superblocks will be below grade, the university previously stated.

The school also proposes to create a 60,000-square-foot interior courtyard, a new playground on the corner of LaGuardia Place and Bleecker Street, installing a tricycle garden on the corner of West 3rd Street and Mercer, and increasing public open space by 130,000 square feet.

In a statement following the vote, NYU vice president Alicia Hurley says the university “looks forward to continuing the discussion” with the broader community and the city about the university’s academic needs.

“NYU appreciates the community's feedback to date and believes that our five-year dialogue with our neighbors has already yielded tremendous results,” she says, in an e-mailed statement to GlobeSt.com. “Thus far, in response to the community's requests, we've produced a strategic plan that: helps our neighbors better understand our space needs; allows us to grow on our own footprint, with a full half of our projected growth on space outside the Village; and provides parkland and open space and the donation of a $23 million location for a new public school,” noting that the university has presented a proposal that avoids eminent domain and residential tenant displacement, all while allowing NYU to grow academically and create jobs.

Before the vote, Tom Gray, executive director of the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce issued a letter endorsing NYU’s expansion strategy, noting that the school’s main campus directly and indirectly accounts of more than $2.25 billion in economic activity and nearly 25,000 jobs. Last year, a report prepared by Appleseed, a New York City-based economic analysis firm, found that the Village’s universities—including NYU and the New School—employ approximately 10,350 people and generates an annual payroll of $611 million, attracting thousands of visitors and students alike to the area, GlobeSt.com previously reported.

But Berman – and many residents – are not backing down yet. “We are mobilizing people to call, write and e-mail the borough president and urge him to absolutely reject the plan,” he says.