NYU promises long term development plan

Posted on March 9, 2007 by

New York University for a long time has been a source of frustration for East Village residents.  NYU is constantly erecting new buildings and dorms, as well as expanding old ones. The buildings usually do not compliment the surrounding neighborhood, and the only residents occupying them are college students which do not mesh well with families and the elderly.  A major complaint among the community is that NYU does what it wants without informing anyone in the neighborhood.  A common request is that NYU proposes a long term plan involving their new buildings.  Finally with the help of a newly formed task force and an  architecture firm to be named later, NYU will project a final plan for it’s long term developments throughout the city, reportedly by May of 2007. For the full story click here.

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2 Responses to NYU promises long term development plan

  1. Jessica Baptiste says:
    March 12, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    How can NYU erect any building they want? Don’t they have to go through the community board and adhere to zoning laws?

  2. jcassermere says:
    March 15, 2007 at 12:27 am

    When the city is your campus, the city is going to suffer in some way to accomodate the schools and the students. And when the school is as well known as NYU, students are going to flood in. If rents were any kind of reasonable in NYC, new dorms wouldn’t have to be erected to accomodate the influx. And no 12 story building will ever be constructed in NYC that hasn’t been planned, replanned, zoned, rezoned, and finally accepted by a governing board, so the assertions that, “NYU does what it wants without informing anyone in the neighborhood,” seem to be sophomoric complaints of uninvolved people. Doesn’t anyone ever read the notices on the intended plots of land? I guess not.

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