Press Contacts:

• John Beckman, NYU | 212.998.6848 | john.beckman@nyu.edu
• Kathleen Hamilton, NYU-Poly | 718.260.3792 | hamilton@poly.edu
  

                        ** DAYBOOK ITEM / MEDIA ADVISORY **

City and Brooklyn Officials Join NYU Leadership Today to Inaugurate 120,000 sq ft Expansion Space in MetroTech

WHAT:     A ribbon-cutting to officially open a major expansion for NYU-Poly: 120,000 sq ft in MetroTech--For the Computer Science and Engineering Department, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, computational labs, classrooms, faculty offices, and administrative space.

The expansion is part of both NYU’s city-wide approach to development of new academic   space under its NYU 2031 plan – fully half of which will be outside Greenwich Village – and NYU-Poly’s i2e campus transformation.

                
WHO:      Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President

                 Joan Millman, member of the New York State Assembly

                 Gale Brewer, member of the New York City Council

                 Robert Steel, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development

                 Josh Wallack, COO of the NYC Economic Development Corporation

                 John Sexton, president of NYU

                 Jerry Hultin, president of NYU-Poly

                 Tucker Reed, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

                 Bruce Ratner, chair and CEO of Forest City Ratner

                 Kenneth Daly, president of National Grid for New York

WHERE:   The NYU-Poly lobby of 2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY (Lawrence St. )
 
WHEN:     Friday, January 20, 2012 at 1:00 pm
 

Note to repoters:  This event is not – repeat not – an announcement related to the City’s Applied Science initiative.