NEW YORK CITY-New York University is reportedly adding the WorldTrade Center to its list of possible expansion sites, according topublished reports. The New York Post and the AssociatedPress both reported Tuesday that NYU VP Lynne Brown has sent aletter to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and theLower Manhattan Development Corp. requesting a meeting.

When it unveiled its expansion planearlier this spring, the university acknowledged that its GreenwichVillage home base couldn’t accommodate all of the six millionsquare feet of space it plans to add. “For that reason, we wouldlike to discuss Lower Manhattan as part of our exploration ofremote sites,” she wrote in a letter dated June 11.

Specifically, the university would seek to take space in theproposed Tower 5 at the southeast corner of Ground Zero. The1.3-million-square-foot tower would be built on the site of theformer Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St., currently beingdeconstructed.