Pace University campuses are located in
New York City and
Westchester County, New York. The university's shuttle service provides transportation between the New York City and Pleasantville campuses. Furthermore, Pace University has a high school located just ten blocks away from the university's New York City campus (see
Pace University High School).
New York City The New York City campus is in the
Civic Center of Lower Manhattan, next to the
Financial District and
New York Downtown Hospital. The campus is within walking distance of well-known New York City sites including
Wall Street, the
World Trade Center,
World Financial Center,
South Street Seaport,
Chinatown and
Little Italy. Pace has about of space in Lower Manhattan. The main building,
One Pace Plaza, is a two-square-block building bounded by Gold, Nassau, Spruce, and Frankfort Streets, directly adjacent to the Manhattan entrance ramp of the
Brooklyn Bridge. Directly across from
City Hall, the One Pace Plaza complex houses most of the classrooms, administrative offices, a
student union, a 750-seat community theater, and an 18-floor high-rise residence hall (known as "Maria's Tower"). 41 Park Row was the 19th-century headquarters of
The New York Times, and today houses the student newspaper
The Pace Press, as well as student organization offices, the Pace University Press, faculty offices, the university's bookstore, and classrooms. About of 41 Park Row is the home of the Haskins Laboratories, set up at Pace by
Seymour H. Hutner, where medical experiments are held, like the
green tea extract study covered in international media. The buildings of 157 William Street, 161 William Street, and 163 William Street were acquired by Pace following the
September 11 attacks to make up for loss of the entire 55th floor, , in the
North Tower of the
World Trade Center, which housed Pace University's World Trade Institute and World Trade Conference Center. The William Street buildings house classrooms, offices of the Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems, the School of Education, the College of Health Professions, the university's
business incubators, and Pace's Downtown Conference Center, where the
e.MBA residency sessions are held (Pace also has leased office space at 156 William Street). Pace has residence halls at 182 Broadway and 33 Beekman Street. The 33 Beekman Street building is the world's tallest student residential building. Pace also leases residence accommodations at the residence at 55 John Street, also in Lower Manhattan. Pace also offers classes in
midtown Manhattan in the
art deco Fred F. French Building on at 551
Fifth Avenue. In January 2019, Pace completed a $45 million renovation of One Pace Plaza and the adjoining 41 Park Row.
Westchester County , Pleasantville Classes began in
Pleasantville, New York in 1963. The campus today consists of the former estate of then Vice Chairman of
General Foods Corporation, Wayne Marks (Class of 1928)—previously belonging to the 18th-century physician
George C. S. Choate (who gave his name to a pond and a house on the campus.) On the campus is the Environmental Center, constructed around the remnants of a 1779 farmhouse. The center, which is dedicated to the environmental studies program, provides office and classroom space; it houses the university's animals such as chickens, goats, sheep, pigs, and
raptors. As part of the Pleasantville Master Plan, the Environmental Center was expanded and relocated to the back of campus. Two brand new residence halls, Elm Hall and Alumni Hall, were constructed in its place and the Kessel Student Center was remodeled. The
Elisabeth Haub School of Law is located in
White Plains, New York. Nestled between the
Cross-Westchester Expressway (
I-287) and
NY Route 22 (North Broadway), the Law School has a landscaped suburban campus with a mix of historic and modern buildings. Founded in 1976 as Pace Law School, it is the only law school between New York City and the state capital of
Albany, New York, away.
Other properties Pace University established a public high school,
Pace University High School, and opened its doors to its first class in September 2004. Pace High School is in
New York City school district Region 9 and shares a building with
Middle School 131 at 100 Hester Street in Lower Manhattan, 10 blocks away from the university's New York City campus. In the fall of 2004, Pace University opened two
business incubators to help early-stage companies grow in New York City in Lower Manhattan and
Yonkers. SCI², (which stands for Second Century Innovation and Ideas, Corp.) maintains accelerator sites in Lower Manhattan and in the Valley Technology Center complex in
Yonkers, New York. In 2001, the Women's Justice Center of the Elizabeth Haub School of Law opened a second site at the Westchester County Family Court in Yonkers. The Westchester County Family Court in Yonkers is one of three family courts in Westchester County. The Yonkers office of the Women's Justice Center is located at the Westchester Family Court, 53 South Broadway in Yonkers. The International Disarmament Institute is a center for teaching and studying worldwide disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation. Matthew Bolton, the director of the institute, worked on The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. ==Academics==