just fyi - Rutgers was founded in 1766 and is one of the nine colonial colleges founded before US independence. I’m pretty sure they are also one of the only major public universities in NJ so not sure they fit in this narrative. (fwiw - i’m not a Rutgers grad or fan but was shocked by its history when I was told so thought I would share the knowledge)
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True - it was a bad example for that idea! Princeton really stole their thunder 
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To be fair, there was no public university that was able to take the grants that Cornell ended up with. The four University Centers are two private colleges that were bought out in the 60s (Buffalo, Binghamton), a upgraded teacher’s college (Albany), and a clean sheeted creation of the 1950s (Stony Brook). Even now the four are at odds, just ask Albany about how Stony Brook cut them for CAA entry so Hochul could get Long Island votes. And anything Cornell beat to the punch for in academics, Syracuse beat to the punch for athletics.
You don’t see it to this extreme in the other Northeast states even. Princeton didn’t harm Rutgers, Yale didn’t harm UConn, Colby/Bates/Bowdoin didn’t kneecap Maine, and so on.
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Yale didnt kneecap UConn the same way Cornell did the SUNY system. There also is a bit of a buffer between the UMass system and schools like Harvard/BU/Northeastern all around, MIT/Tufts/et Al academically, and BC athletically.
What goes on in New York is unique.
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This is going to be taller than you think!
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Thanks for bringing the livestream to our attention.
Do we have any renderings or design plans of this place whatsoever?
What makes you say that? This is a construction cam so it’s not showing us anything we don’t already know (an empty lot) and what we do know is that there will be two buildings, a 5-story and an 8-story (right?). So given they’re office (and thus taller floors than residential), we can figure it’ll be about as tall as an 8-story office building.
Just 1 building. 9 floors above grade including the mech. penthouse. 2 parking floors below ground. 160 feet tall above ground.
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How’d this project go so under the radar? Haven’t heard any talk about this on this forum. This buildings disappeared fast lol.
There’s no renderings, so it’s hard to visualize or talk about what’s coming.
The building that came down is somewhat of an architectural loss, but apparently was going to need some serious rehab to be usable and it wasn’t THAT great, so there’s not much argument on that side either.
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Has an architectural drawings or renderings been released for the new state Education building?
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Not to my knowledge. And if they’ve been made available, I guarantee someone on here would’ve seen and shared!
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