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NYU is working with the City of New York to transform the long-empty 370 Jay Street building into an innovation hub for engineering, applied science, urban science, digital technology, and digital media arts.
The renovation reflects a number of developments within NYU - and in Brooklyn itself - that have allowed the University to evolve and expand our plans for 370 Jay Street in ways that we think make for a more impressive and impactful contribution to the goal of making New York City a center for engineering and technology.
Mitchell|Giurgola Architects, LLP, is designing the renovation.
Early Renderings of 370 Jay Street.
A rendering showing the future of 370 Jay Street. 370 Jay Street will open to the public in fall 2017
A rendering showing the future of 370 Jay Street. 370 Jay Street will open to the public in fall 2017
A rendering showing the future of 370 Jay Street. 370 Jay Street will open to the public in fall 2017
A rendering showing the future of 370 Jay Street. 370 Jay Street will open to the public in fall 2017
A rendering showing the future of 370 Jay Street. 370 Jay Street will open to the public in fall 2017
A rendering showing the future of 370 Jay Street. 370 Jay Street will open to the public in fall 2017
Current lobby of 370 Jay Street. 370 Jay Street will open to the public in fall 2017.
Current lobby of 370 Jay Street. 370 Jay Street will open to the public in fall 2017.
When it opened in 1951, 370 Jay Street signaled a turning point in American architecture. Designed to be the a central headquarters of the New York City Board of Transportation (now the Metropolitan Transit Authority), the building immediately set the tone for mid-century modernist office design. Its revolutionary facade gave way to executive offices, thousands of worker spaces, ground floor retail, and the counting house and money vaults for the entire city transit system. The building remained in use for decades. Eventually, however, the decline of the local economy precipitated the evaporation of its last retail tenants, and in 1990 the Transit Authority itself relocated to new facilities – leaving 370 to languish in disuse and neglect.
NYU was selected for the construction and operation of a new education and research center at 370 Jay Street, in downtown Brooklyn, under NYC’s applied science competition in 2012.
Since then, there have been a number of developments within NYU - and in Brooklyn itself - that have allowed the University to evolve and expand our plans for 370 Jay Street in ways that we think make for a more impressive and impactful contribution to the goal of making New York City a center for engineering and technology.
Those developments include:
Throughout a five-year process involving approvals from the Public Design Commission, NYU is renovating the entire 500,000 sq. ft. building from an underutilized office building into an innovation hub for engineering, applied science, urban science, digital technology, and digital media arts.
NYU’s design team explored replacing the building’s limestone facade with a glass curtain, but restoring the limestone preserves the neighborhood’s aesthetic character and is vastly more environmentally sustainable. Energy efficiency retrofits will decrease strain on local utilities and sustainable building practices will save some 4,000 cubic yards of debris – 133 30-yard dumpsters! – from the landfill.
NYU’s approach to construction prioritizes environmental sustainability.
At 370 Jay street, a multi-pronged strategy will massively reduce the building's historical energy footprint, in turn reducing the demands that the building will place on the local utilities grids (source consumption) and lowering emissions.
NYU is serious about revitalizing 370 Jay Street as a vibrant hub for neighborhood life, with renovation strategies including:
For additional questions, email community.engagement@nyu.edu or explore this project's FAQ for the parents at Brooklyn Friends School.