YU enhances its campus and its ‘hood

Yeshiva University recently broke ground for a $3.6 million, 20,000 square-foot pedestrian plaza on its Washington Heights campus.

The redesigned space will include additional seating areas, moveable tables with chess tabletops, bicycle racks and ornamental street lighting surrounded by trees, shrubs, perennials and ferns. The project will also include the installation of new curbs, sidewalks, pavers and water mains.

“We look forward to the completion of the 185th Street Plaza as we cement our future with the community,” said YU President Richard M. Joel. “Not only will the student life at Yeshiva University be enhanced, but the local neighborhood will be richer as well.”

Department of Design and Construction Commissioner Feniosky Peña-Mora said the plaza supported “the mayor’s vision for an environmentally sustainable and resilient city.”