Gothamist: NYU Defends 26 Story Megadorm

Paige

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:07:24 -0500

The University Heights campus almost did them in by the 1970s when they sold it to prevent bankruptcy. However, keep in mind that NYU was strictly a commuter school until the early 1980s when they bought their first dorm from the law school. I completely disagree with the design and scale of the building, but it is better than the alternatives: keeping open the dorms in the financial district or throwing them out into the streets *and* demanding 30,500 in tuition every year.

Badly Drawn Girl

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:16:46 -0500

NYU is a private, for-profit organization. Of course they're not going to cap their growth. They'll just end up screwing over all the out-of-town new students who now find themselves dumped in the middle of New York after orientation with no place to live. I guess NYU could always open up a Bronx satellite campus...it worked for them in the past after all, lol.

m

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:06:36 -0500

Badly Drawn Girl- Maybe NYU should accept that it can no longer expand to take over the entire city and stop accepting more and more students. But, any limits to growth seem to be uncontemplatable to Americans, who view it as "natural". Should NYU keep expaning until all of the Village is owned by them? Tell me, does that make any sense?

Badly Drawn Girl

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:43:08 -0500

Granted this is coming from a former NYU student (now happily reintegrated into "normal" society, thank you) but I do have to wonder just what the hell the university is supposed to do in this situation, as they are currently incapable of guaranteeing housing for all of their incoming freshmen, much less the entire student body. NYU is bursting at the seams and they have to put them somewhere. Where are they going to stick them, 26th Street? Oh wait...

NYUer

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:42:49 -0500

You might as well rename that whole area NYU town.

DD

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:10:26 -0500

It should be noted that the Greenwich Vilage Society for Historic Preservation is actually for the rennovation of the park. Talk about inconsistent.

lies and the lying liars who tell them

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:37:21 -0500

Beckman is NYU's spinmeister. Don't believe a goddam thing he says -- he lies for a living. Duplicity, indeed.

kosmo scanner

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:52:38 -0500

I got a case of insomnia last night and decided to listen to my scanner at 4 am when the bars let out to see if there's any action. Well, there was a job for a dispute between 2 females at 400 broome street so I googled it, it's the address of a NYU dorm. Damn, NYU had dorms all over lower Manhattan. Some of these dorms look really ugly, they look like welfare offices.

m

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:45:13 -0500

hmm... probably because most of what this City builds is utter crap.

homey

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:08:11 -0500

Berman is anti-everything. The foundation for this has already been poured.