Renderings and Reactions to NYU’s Greenwich Village Expansion: What It Looks...
New York University won a huge victory at the City Council today, when it received approval for its somewhat less massive plan to expand its campus in Greenwich Villag, from from 2.5 million square...
View ArticleNYU Anew: Just How Much Smaller Is the Shrunken Greenwich Village Expansion?
Tomorrow, NYU will take its somewhat shrunken plan for its Greenwich Village expansion back to the City Council. Last week, local rep Margaret Chin convinced the school to shave 17 percent off its...
View ArticleSpeaker Quinn and ‘Mogul Mike’ Crush NYU Students in Protest Video
NYU's controversial Greenwich Village expansion is set to go before the City Council tomorrow, where it will almost assuredly pass. Not giving up, NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan—its his plan, not...
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Ivory Sours: Late to Class, NYU Professors Fail at Blocking So-Called Sexton...
Not in our back quad! (GVSHP) Last Thursday, as has happened every day for going on a century, a couple middle-aged intellectuals gathered around a table in Greenwich Village to discuss the news of the...
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First of Probably Many NYU Expansion Lawsuits Filed
Not in my backyards—literally! (Wikimedia Commons) The first volley of NYU lawsuits has been filed, as residents of Washington Square Village have gotten together to sue the university for what they...
View ArticleOccupy NYU: OWS Brings Its Light Cannon to the Village for Faculty’s...
School is back in session, and so are those pesky professors fighting NYU’s plans to expand in Greenwich Village. In the spirit of the season, NYU Faculty has teamed up with The Illuminator, Occupy...
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Purple Pulverizers: NYU Faculty, Preservationists Sue University Over...
Bringing down the houses. (NYU) As promised, a group of NYU faculty, preservationists and community groups, a dozen parties in all, have filed a suit against the city over the university's...
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Thurston Moore and John Zorn Host ‘Save the Village’ Benefit to Fight NYU...
Scarry. (NYU FASP) The Beats may be long gone, but protest music is alive and well in Greenwich Village—thanks in part to the institution that helped drive many of the artists out, New York University....
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Susan Sarandon Latest Star to Jump on the Anti-NYU Bandwagon
She looks good in purple, but she doesn't like it. Fran Liebowitz, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Thurston Moore and John Zorn—many are the successful artists and intellectuals who have...
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You Win Some, You Lose Some: NYU Checked in South Village, Approved for...
You'd never guess it, but Vanderbilt Hall was actually built in the 1950s. If you thought that the war over New York University's expansion in and around the Greenwich Village was over, think again:...
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