DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Slate is moving from Manhattan to Brooklyn.
The digital magazine and its podcasting site, Panoply, will move to a new office space in Metrotech Center in Downtown Brooklyn this April, according to a Slate spokeswoman.
"We're following our staff — New York's creative class no longer lives in Manhattan," spokeswoman Alissa Neil said in an email.
The move was first reported by Advertising Age.
The Slate Group, which currently shares an office with The Washington Post’s New York bureau in the West Village, will relocate to a 21,000 square-foot space with room for 128 employees.
Neil said roughly 100 employees will go to the new location in April. The company hopes to expand and have all 128 seats filled by the end of next year.
The new office space will also include four podcast studios and a video studio. The current office in the West Village only has two podcast studios.
"This should help us with podcast growth," Neil said.
Slate will join Spanish-language newspaper El Diario La Prensa, JP Morgan Chase, National Grid and the Polytechnic Institute of NYU at the 16-acre MetroTech Center.
The web magazine joins other Brooklyn-based media companies like Vice, the Awl, Gimlet Media and Time Inc., which signed a long-term lease at Sunset Park’s Industry City last year.
