NYU Langone plans $1 billion teaching hospital, research center in Melville
NYU Langone’s $1 billion Melville plan could bring specialists and faster care closer to western Suffolk, while adding pressure to a crowded Route 110 corridor.
NYU Langone has proposed a teaching hospital and research center in Melville with a price tag of at least $1 billion, a project that could put advanced care closer to western Suffolk patients who now often travel farther west for specialty treatment. Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine said the system plans to spend at least $1 billion on the development, which would be built at the Huntington Quadrangle just south of the Long Island Expressway.
The site sits in one of the county’s most active development corridors. Huntington Now reported that One and Two Huntington Quadrangle total 765,000 square feet on 45 acres in the Melville Town Center District. Nearby, the Huntington Town Board recently approved Melville Crossing, a separate mixed-use project with 400 residential units on about 15 to 16 acres at Maxess Road and Corporate Center Drive. That puts the hospital proposal in a corridor already facing pressure from traffic, office redevelopment and added housing.
For Suffolk families, the promise is straightforward: more access to specialists, more advanced procedures and less need to leave the county for complex care. NYU Langone has already used its Long Island expansion to deepen that model elsewhere. On March 3, 2025, it completed its full asset merger with Long Island Community Hospital and renamed the facility NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk, making it the system’s seventh inpatient hospital. After the affiliation began in March 2022, NYU Langone said the Suffolk hospital added robotic surgery and gynecologic oncology, while surgical and other operating-room procedures rose by more than 50 percent.
The health system also said hospital-acquired conditions fell by 25 percent and the time for emergency-department patients to see a provider declined by nearly 70 percent. Infusion services launched in May 2023 generated 4,000 new visits. Construction also began on a Patchogue ambulatory surgery center with six operating rooms and four procedure rooms, set to open in 2026, showing that the Melville proposal would fit into a broader push for inpatient, outpatient and specialty care across Long Island.
NYU Langone first discussed the Melville plan with Town of Huntington officials in November 2024, according to Long Island Business News. That reporting said the Canon U.S.A. headquarters campus in Melville covers 696,000 square feet on 52 acres and could take on another 600,000 square feet under current zoning. Huntington Town Supervisor Ed Smyth signaled openness to the idea, saying, “Huntington is open for business.” The proposal now lands in a place where health care, office redevelopment and land use are increasingly intertwined, and where one new hospital could reshape both patient access and the local market for doctors, nurses and support staff.
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