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NYU Cleared to Plow Ahead with Expansion

NEW YORK CITY—The Greenwich Village-based university received permission to go forward with its $6 billion plan from New York State's highest court, which found community resistance unfounded.

By Rayna Katz | Updated on July 01, 2015

NEW YORK CITY—New York University has received the go ahead for its large scale, $6 billion expansion plan from the state’s highest court following a protracted battle with community activists. A construction schedule is forthcoming in the next few months.

The project’s total approved space is nearly two million square feet, with 900,000 square feet below grade, an NYU spokesman tells GlobeSt.com. It involves four buildings on two blocks south of Washington Square and is expected to take at least two decades to complete. The first project will include classrooms, specialized performing arts education and performance spaces, a below-grade replacement for the gym, student and faculty housing.

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