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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday that a consortium led by New York University is the second winner in the city’s Applied Sciences NYC Initiative, in which the city sought competitive bids from universities to develop applied-sciences campuses in the city. The larger prize was awarded in December to a partnership of Cornell University and Technion–the Israel Institute of Technology after a highly publicized competition between the pair and Stanford University.
Together with a consortium of academic and corporate partners, NYU and NYU-Poly plan to develop a Center for Urban Science and Progress at a city-owned building in downtown Brooklyn. The center will focus on studying and developing solutions to urban challenges in an interdisciplinary manner. NYU will be responsible for the cost of relocating the city equipment housed at the site, estimated to be about $50 million, though the city is granting the university about $15 million in benefits.
The consortium is composed of NYU and NYU-Poly, Carnegie Mellon University, the City University of New York, the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, the University of Toronto, and the University of Warwick, as well as corporate partners including IBM, Cisco, Siemens, and Xerox.
On a related note, a profile of Stanford University published Monday in The New Yorker spelled out some of the tensions that emerged between the city and the university, which was favored by many to win the competition until it pulled out days before Cornell was selected as the winner.
