In 1894 the University of the City of New York moved its engineering school to a new campus in the Bronx.[12] The new campus gave the university space to build larger science laboratories that could not be constructed at its Washington Square site.[13] With the addition of the new campus, under the leadership of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken, the University of the City of New York renamed itself New York University. The neighborhood surrounding the Bronx campus eventually became known as University Heights. By 1920 separate electrical and chemical engineering departments were created and the school changed its name to the College of Engineering.