Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus Opens Bookstore Building

The 9,840 square foot structure, built at a cost of $2,250,000, helps define the northern campus boundary for the pedestrian plaza, that represents the heart of outdoor campus activity, according to Peter Tymus, associate vice president for capital projects. He said, “The bookstore handsomely ties together many of the existing campus architectural elements while creating a fresh identity and look.”

Brooklyn Campus Provost Gale Stevens Haynes said, “The Brooklyn Campus welcomes our newly built and expanded bookstore that will serve as a fine resource for enriching academic life.”

The bookstore has been leased to and will be operated by Barnes & Noble.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including nearly 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.