As the northernmost frontier of New York City on the Long Island Sound, New Rochelle provides an untapped urban core with all the benefits and diversity of a large city and the bucolic lifestyle of an exclusive suburb. This unprecedented urban canvas provided the perfect ingredients for an out of the box thinking process to assist the City of New Rochelle in becoming the perfect talent and transit oriented destination for future generations.

Through an urban lens, Columbia University has explored the amount and type of growth that ideally should occur in each section of the city.