NYU Langone Health plans new Long Island campus

NYU Langone Health has unveiled plans to expand with a new academic medical center in Long Island.

The health system is planning a 45-acre campus that will include a hospital with 500 private rooms and 70 emergency department bays. The campus will also house the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, space for research, and outpatient facilities.

The system purchased the land for $135 million. NYU Langone Health didn’t provide a cost estimate, but Crain's New York Business has described it as a multi-billion dollar project.

The campus will be built in Melville, N.Y., near the border of Nassau and Suffolk counties. State and local officials must sign off on the plans, and NYU Langone Health described it as a multi-year project.

Alec C. Kimmelman, MD, dean and CEO of NYU Langone, said in a statement provided by the system that the project has special meaning for him, since he grew up on Long Island.

“This is one of the most ambitious and exciting projects ever undertaken by NYU Langone,” Kimmelman said.

NYU Langone Health has been expanding its presence on Long Island. In March 2025, the system completed the merger and rebranding of Long Island Community Hospital. It’s now known as NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk and the facility became the seventh hospital in the system.

But the health system has been expanding across New York City and the surrounding area. NYU Langone Health says it has expanded its footprint in the region by 376 percent since 2007, and the system now occupies 14.4 million square feet across more than 320 locations throughout the tri-state area.

With the new medical campus, the health system projects 8,000 union construction jobs will be created on Long Island. And when the medical center is up and running, NYU Langone Health expects to add thousands of permanent jobs to the regional economy.

The NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine offers a three-year program focused on primary care, with students paying no tuition. NYU Langone Health says the inclusion of the medical school as part of the new campus reflects the system’s vision of an integrated approach to healthcare.

Ken Langone, the chairman emeritus of NYU Langone Health’s board of trustees, hailed the plans for the new campus. A lifelong resident of Long Island, Langone and his wife, Elaine, have been the system’s biggest donors, contributing more than $750 million.

“This transformative academic medical center represents a powerful commitment to expanding access to the highest-quality care for patients across Long Island while also advancing the education and research that will shape medicine for generations to come,” he said in a news release.