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Planet Cherry, by David Reeves at flickr

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Sands St. in Brooklyn, a stabbing on Rockaway Beach Blvd. in Queens, and a double shooting on Palmer Ave. in the Bronx.
NYU is boosting its tuition for the next school year by 6%, making it the most expensive undergrad school in the city. At $37,372 a year, NYU edges out Columbia Univ. by about $80 per annum.
Zipcar dances the NYC parking tango, a combination of quick movement and anticipation of one's partner's next step.
A six-year-old boy was struck by a car after stepping out from behind an ice cream truck in Suffolk County.
A City Councilwoman representing the Bronx earmarked several thousand dollars in taxpayer dollars towards a tenants association that does not exist. Her campaign treasurer does live in the building though.
Business Class-only Eos Airlines filed for bankruptcy and flew its last New York-to-London flight today.
An interesting look at the history of the Harlem Courthouse.
A firefighter in Orange County is in trouble after getting drunk and crashing one of his town's emergency vehicles into a lightpole. He drove the battered vehicle back to the firehouse and told the fire chief that he'd been in a fight.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on April 27, 2008 6:15 PM

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bklynd

Yes, if you've got brains and know what you want to do, going to a cheaper state school may work out well for you. (And New York state schools are very cheap indeed.) If you are lost and passive it won't do much, but that's probably the case with an impersonal, dysfunctional behemoth like NYU as well.

One caveat - the lack of housing at the CUNY schools is a problem that makes them less competitive for the average student. If you are a teenager from elsewhere (not that they get many of those) you'd need an apartment, and you certainly lose out on some of the college experience if you are living at home with mom and dad.

Steven

It's about what you know and what you can do rather than what school you went to. The SUNY system provides an excellent education.

TKaisen

Does any normal employers even care anymore about what college is on your diploma? Pretty much everyone I know who graduated from the SUNY system got a well-paying job in the city and incurred less debt in five years (all the way through a master's program) than 3 semesters at NYU.

Kojak

I agree that there are limits to how much debt a student can shoulder, I myself can testify to that. But many parents believe they have a solemn obligation to put their kids through college completely by their own means regardless of what financial problems they may have. I really can't blame them for doing so either. But the price of College is rising faster than real wages, inflation and even he price of food. Doesn't give them much of a choice.

But its great you and many others are helping out their folks. I'd hate to put that type of financial strain on my folks, especially since they're saving for retirement.

Spiny

Kojak: who says the student isn't helping to pay for some of it? I'm a current undergraduate, and in spite of the fact that I have a partial scholarship, student loans, and work-study wages, my parents still shoulder the bulk of my tuition. There are limits on the federal student loans I can take out, and work-study only covers so much (books, transportation, and personal expenses, in my case). PLUS loans typically make up the bulk of financing for undergraduates.

Kojak

Quoting the Post: "It's definitely putting a damper in my parents' pocket,"

Oh Poor you. Why don't you help PAY for your own education you freeloading hussie? I BEG parents who have trouble financing their homes and/or retirements paying for their little snowflake's tuition to make their KIDS finance a little more of that debt.

Kojak

NYU is only worth attending if you have a full or partial scholarship or if your employer is fitting part or all of the tuition. How the hell do they justify almost 20k per semester??

nivek

That image looks like it was inspired by Super Mario Galaxy. Just saying.

Snoopy

Ice cream trucks are not school buses. There is no law regarding passing an ice cream truck with flashing lights. The kid was six years old, not exactly at the prime of his life regarding brain cells.