Why you should experience MetroTech Center in New York, NY.
MetroTech Center is a pioneering business and technology campus where Downtown Brooklyn's entrepreneurial spirit, academic excellence, and urban reinvention established one of the nation's most successful mixed use innovation districts.
Set along MetroTech Center near Jay Street and just steps from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, this expansive pedestrian campus anchors the heart of Downtown Brooklyn with corporate headquarters, research facilities, university buildings, landscaped plazas, and public gathering spaces that transformed a former industrial district into a center for technology and higher education. Developed through a landmark public private partnership beginning in the 1980s, the campus reshaped Downtown Brooklyn into a destination for global companies, startups, and academic institutions while creating one of New York City's largest car-free business environments. Today, MetroTech Center continues to foster innovation, collaboration, and economic growth within one of Brooklyn's most dynamic neighborhoods.
What you should know about MetroTech Center.
MetroTech Center is best known for opening its first phase in 1992 after a decade-long redevelopment transformed 16 acres of aging industrial blocks into one of the largest urban business and technology campuses in the United States, attracting major employers including JPMorgan Chase, National Grid, National Securities Clearing Corporation, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
The project became a national model for large scale urban revitalization by integrating higher education, private industry, public space, and transit access within a single walkable campus. Its pedestrian plaza, office towers, academic facilities, and public art installations helped redefine Downtown Brooklyn as a leading center for business, research, and innovation while generating thousands of jobs and stimulating continued investment throughout the surrounding neighborhood. More than three decades later, MetroTech Center remains one of Brooklyn's most influential examples of modern urban redevelopment.
How to fold MetroTech Center into your trip.
MetroTech Center fits naturally into a morning exploring Downtown Brooklyn before spending the afternoon discovering the neighborhood's civic, cultural, and historic attractions.
Begin your day by walking through the campus plazas while office workers, students, and visitors bring the district to life, then continue to NYU Tandon School of Engineering to appreciate one of the nation's oldest engineering schools. Afterward, explore the exhibits inside the New York Transit Museum, where Brooklyn's transportation history comes into focus before finishing at Brooklyn Borough Hall, whose stately Greek Revival architecture provides a fitting conclusion to a day centered on the borough's innovation, government, and civic identity. The surrounding streets reward exploration, with public art, historic architecture, neighborhood cafés, and thriving commercial corridors illustrating Downtown Brooklyn's remarkable transformation.
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