Downtown Brooklyn
Central business district in New York City
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Downtown Brooklyn is the third-largest central business district in New York City (after Midtown and Lower Manhattan), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is known for its office and residential buildings, such as several of Brooklyn's tallest buildings and the MetroTech Center office complex.
Since the rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn in 2004, the area has been undergoing a transformation, with $9 billion of private investment and $300 million in public improvements underway. The area is a growing hub for education. In 2017, New York University announced that it would invest over $500 million to renovate and expand the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and its surrounding Downtown Brooklyn-based campus.
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