Its 63 rooms are spread over nine buildings dating back as far as the 1700's.
The school, whose 1,080 students in prekindergarten through 12th grade are spread over six buildings, is in an increasingly gentrified neighborhood that also includes the courthouses and government buildings of downtown Brooklyn and their varied inhabitants.
It's got swimming pools, tennis courts, a fitness center, a gaming room, a 23-seat movie theater, and roughly 1,750 apartments spread over five buildings.
The new museum additions will add 177,000 square feet of exhibition, research, storage, office, retail and restaurant space (the Meier building has 135,000 square feet) that will spread out over three buildings clustered around a piazza with a fountain.
Known as Dcota (pronounced dakota) it now has 770,000 square feet of showrooms spread over three marble-tiled buildings, each surrounding an atrium.
The Howard Street space has since evolved from a scrappy, exposed-plywood clubhouse with Hello Kitty displays and shelves of art books to a sleek boutique, spread over two adjacent buildings.
The size is right; the atmosphere is light and bright, especially now that the show is back in its original digs in Chelsea, with some 40 galleries spread over three floors of the former Dia building.
And when Mr. Karp expanded his plans, he said, Mr. Obstfeld ultimately provided $30 million to construct a collection of 10 buildings, most of them spread over three blocks in Prospect Heights.
