The focus of district plan is Broadway. The intent is to develop the Broadway corridor. The interventions however are situated within the existing blocks, on the median strip in Broadway and are also distributed across soft sites over the entire Morningside Heights neighbourhood around Broadway.
The district plan is made up of three pieces of investigation which facilitate the expansion of the campus without the introduction of towers into fabric of the Morningside Heights neighborhood.
The first sites of intervention are at the 110th and 116th street intersections with Broadway. These nodes are developed to improve the existing subway connections to the neighborhood and to act as new activity sites.
The University has acquired a significant number of properties in the neighbourhood over the past 100 years. The property lines between some of the adjacent sites within the block therefore no longer have the significance they once held. As a result the district plan strategy reveals how the blocks can be reconfigured in order to accommodate the future expansion of the campus and community.
The significant landmark sites distributed around the neighbouhood are reflected back into the Broadway corridor. Their form and programming are woven around Broadway into nodes which tie together traces of Morningside Heights in a new configuration.